Earth's Rocky Materials
The three ways the earth's surface can be transformed.
What is weathering, erosion, and wind?
The two chemical elements that make up most of the salt in seawater.
What are sodium and chlorine?
The envelope of gases that surround our planet.
What is the atmosphere?
The largest star in our solar system.
What is the sun?
The two ways rock can be broken down by weathering.
What is mechanical weathering and chemical weathering?
The three ways oceans can move.
What are tides, currents, and waves?
The one necessary element in the atmosphere that plants need but can't absorb from the atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
98% of the sun is made up of these two elements.
What are hydrogen and helium?
The process of wearing away rock and transporting sediment.
What is erosion?
The explorer who discovered an ocean route to the East Indies.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
The study of the atmosphere.
What is meteorology?
Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are classified as this.
What are terrestrial planets?
A large mass of dense ice that flows under the influence of gravity.
What is a glacier?
A landlocked body of water completely cut off from any ocean.
What is a lake?
Giant cyclonic windstorms that form over the tropical and subtropical ocean
What are hurricanes?
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are classified as this.
What are Jovian planets?
A layered formation at the surface of the earth made of inorganic earth materials combined with organic nutrients.
What is soil?
Cave formation that forms from the ceiling down.
What are stalactites?
The average seasonal weather in a location or region.
What is climate?
Loose masses of many billions of stars, dust, gases, and other space objects.
What are galaxies?