Climate & Earth's Systems
All of the water on Earth
What is the hydrosphere?
The types of rocks
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?
The third planet from the sun
What is Earth?
Processes that contribute to the formation of soil
What are weathering and erosion?
Protects Earth from harmful radiation
What is the atmosphere?
What is the biosphere?
Two types of igneous rocks
What are intrusive and extrusive?
The sun is this type of star
What is a G star?
The layers of the mantle
What are the lithosphere, asthenosphere, and lower mantle?
The highest high tide and lowest low tide in a tidal cycle.
What is a spring tide?
What is weather?
How sediment turns to sedimentary rock
What is compaction and cementation?
How the sun produces energy.
What is nuclear fusion?
The three types of soil
What are clay, silt, and sand?
Greenhouse gases do this in the atmosphere.
What is trap heat?
Earth's tilt is the primary reason for these.
What are seasons?
Moves weathered material
What is erosion?
All planets in order from the sun
What is mercury, venus, earth, mars, jupiter, saturn, uranus, and neptune?
40% Clay, 55% Sand, 5% Silt
What is sandy clay?
The lunar event when the moon passes between the Earth and the Sun.
What is a solar eclipse?
Weather or climate: An average annual decrease in temperature over one century
What is climate?
Breaks down rocks
What is weathering?
The types of stars from hottest to coolest.
What is O, B, A, F, G, K, M?
55% Clay, 5% Sand, 40% Silt
What is clay and silty clay?
The major greenhouse gases