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What is an ocean?
A large body of water.
What is the Atmosphere?
The layer of gases that surrounds a planet.
What is a mineral?
A naturally occurring, inorganic, crystalline solid.
What is a hemisphere?
One half of a sphere.
What is continental drift?
The early 20th century hypothesis that the continents move about on the Earth's surface.
T/F: The ocean is very biodiverse.
Yes
What is humidity?
The amount of water vapor held in the air.
What is a solid in which all atoms are arranged in a pattern?
A crystal.
A field produced by a magnetic object that exerts a force on other magnetic objects.
What is a convection cell?
A circular pattern of warm material rising and cool material sinking.
What is biomass?
The total mass of living organisms in a given region.
What is the Ozone Layer?
A layer of the stratosphere where ozone gas is more highly concentrated.
What is a substance in which the atoms of two or more elements bond together?
Chemical Compound.
What is a celestial object that orbits a planet?
What is an instrument that measures the magnetic field intensity?
A magnometer.
What % of salt makes up oceans?
3.5%
What is air pressure?
The force of air pressing on a given area.
What is a silicate?
A mineral made of silica tetrahedron, with a silicon ion and oxygen ions.
What is revolution?
The Earth's movements around the earth in an orbital path.
What is a trench?
The deepest parts of the ocean basins.
A change in the shape of water caused by energy by the wind.
What is altitude?
Distance above sea level?
What is the tendency of a mineral to break along certain planes to make smooth surfaces?
Cleavage.
What is the axis?
An imaginary line that runs from the North Pole to South Pole, and it includes the center of Earth.
An Abyssal Plain.