1.1 - Earth Science and Earth Systems
Earth Science is...
What is the fields of study concerned with solid Earth, its waters, and the air that envelops it.
The number of layers Earth has.
What is 4? (or 5)
The lines between tectonic plates.
What are plate boundaries?
When one tectonic plate slides beneath another
What is Subduction?
The air that surrounds us and makes up the environment we live in.
What is the Atmosphere?
A gas made up of oxygen.
What is Ozone?
The water cycle is...
What is the movement of water on Earth and in the atmosphere?
The part of the Earth including rocks, minerals, landforms, and the ground.
The SOLID, non-living part of Earth
What is the Geosphere?
The outermost layer of Earth.
The thinnest layer.
Oceanic and Continental.
What is Crust?
Cracks/breaks in large rock masses allowing large rock portions to move.
What are fault lines?
Type of boundary where plates move away from each other resulting in new crust.
The most outside layer of the atmosphere. Provides protection from harmful radiation.
What is the Exosphere?
These are invisible radiation given off by the sun.
What is 71%?
The part of Earth including all living things on Earth, such as plants, animals, and even tiny microorganisms.
What is the Biosphere?
A semi-solid layer of the Earth made up of moving molten iron.
Thickest layer of the Earth.
What is the Mantle?
The reason the Midwest doesn't experience as many earthquakes as California.
Type of boundary where tectonic plates collide or come together.
This contributes to the formation of mountains, volcanic activity, and earthquakes.
What is a Convergent Boundary?
Layer that holds the ozone layer.
What is the Stratosphere?
What are Greenhouse Gases and Ozone-Depleting Substances (ODS)?
What is Condensation, Precipitation, Collection, and Evaporation?
The part of the Earth including all the water on Earth.
What is the Hydrosphere?
Split into two parts: Outer and Inner
Inner - Solid ball of iron
Outer - Layer of liquid metals (nickel and iron)
What is Core?
What is movement in the Earth's mantle (Convection Currents)
What is Transform Boundary?
The coldest layer of the atmosphere
What is the Mesosphere?
The Ozone Layer = ?
The reason the water cycle matters...
What is it moves nutrients and provides plants, animals, and humans with water?
The layer of gases surrounding Earth.
What is the Atmospshere?
The primary differences between continental and oceanic crust.
Continental: Thick and less dense
Oceanic: Thin and very dense
The name of Earth's continents when they existed as one land mass.
What is Pangea?
Examples of each type of boundary
Convergent: Himalayan Mountain Range
Divergent: Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Transform: San Andreas Fault
The closest layer to Earth's surface, where we live.
What is the Troposphere?
This happens to areas exposed to higher levels of harmful UV radiation.
What is sunburns and skin cancer?
Water in a solid state.
Water in a liquid state.
Water in a gas state.
What is Ice?
What is Water?
What is Vapor? (Steam is also accepted)