Earth's Interior
Water Cycles
Earthquakes/Volcanoes
Atmosphere
Oceans
100
The core.
What is the center of the Earth?
100
Includes all of the water on or near the Earth's surface.
What is the hydrosphere?
100
A mountain built from magma-melted rock-that rises from the Earth's interior to its surface.
What is a volcano?
100
The percentage of Nitrogen in the Earth's atmosphere.
What is 78%?
100
The percentage that is covered by the world ocean.
What is 70% of the Earth's surface?
200
The crust.
What is the outermost layer of Earth?
200
The continuous movement of water into the air, onto land, and then back to water sources.
What is the water cycle?
200
Vibrations of the Earth's crust caused by slippage along a fault.
What is an earthquake?
200
The second most abundant gas in the Earth's atmosphere.
What is oxygen?
200
The largest ocean on the Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
300
A physical layer of the Earth. Consists of the crust and the rigid, uppermost part of the mantle.
What is the lithosphere?
300
The process by which liquid water is heated by the sun and then rises into the atmosphere as water vapor.
What is evaporation?
300
A break in the Earth's crust along which blocks of the crust slide relative to one another.
What is a fault?
300
The atmospheric layer nearest to the Earth's surface.
What is the troposphere?
300
The concentration of all the dissolved salts in ocean water.
What is salinity?
400
A physical layer of the Earth. A plastic layer of the mantle between the mesosphere and the lithosphere.
What is the asthenosphere?
400
Water vapor forms water droplets on dust particles.
What is condensation?
400
Used by scientists to quantify the amount of energy released by an earthquake.
What is the Richter scale?
400
The atmospheric layer farthest from the Earth's surface.
What is the thermosphere?
400
The zone of the ocean where the water temperature drops faster with increased depth than it does in the other zones.
What is the thermocline?
500
The 2 innermost physical layers of the Earth.
What is the inner core and outer core?
500
Larger droplets that fall from the clouds as rain, snow, sleet or hail.
What is precipitation?
500
This can cause a drop in the average global surface temperature.
What is reducution in sunlight?
500
A molecule made up of 3 oxygen atoms.
What is ozone?
500
One of the most important functions of the world ocean.
What is absorbing and storing energy from sunlight?
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