Geosphere
Lithosphere, Asthenosphere, Mantle, and Core
What are the layers of the earth?
If there are many cumulonimbus clouds in the sky, this is the type of weather you can expect.
What are thunderstorms)?
This is where a river meets the sea...
What is an estuary?
(acceptable: mouth)
These types of energy do not use fossil fuels.
What are solar, wind or geothermal?
Animals that eat both plants and other animals.
What are omnivores?
The location directly above an earthquake’s focus, where the shaking is usually strongest
What is the epicenter?
These weather phenomena occur over oceans and often lead to massive winds and rain when they hit land.
What are Hurricanes, Typhoons, and Cyclones?
What are tides?
Name three effects of climate change?
What are rising sea levels, more extreme weather, loss of habitats, health risks, glacier/snow melt?
This is the term for balanced changes in species populations, within an ecosystem.
What is dynamic equilibrium?
The molten rock beneath Earth's surface is called this; once it erupts, it’s called something else
What is magma (and lava once erupted)?
These rapidly rotating columns of air form over land during severe thunderstorms.
What are tornadoes?
Named for a baby, this is the southern oscillation that causes warmer weather along the west coast of the Americas.
What is El Niño?
Products and processes that reduce the impacts of climate change...
What is mitigation?
In this relationship, one organism benefits while the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is commensalism?
This is the name of the supercontinent that existed about 300 million years ago before breaking apart into the continents we know today.
What is Pangaea?
High Stratus, Cumulonimbus, Cirrus...
What are types of clouds?
This part of the earth is the largest source of oxygen on the planet.
What is the ocean?
Products and processes that make us better able to survive the impacts of climate change..
What are adaptations?
This is the type of graph you would most likely use if you were measuring the growth of a plant species at intervals over time.
What is a line graph?
This is the term for when a tectonic plate goes under another plate
What is subduction?
This gas makes up about 78% of Earth’s atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
These kinds of currents are found in the geosphere, the atmosphere, and the hydrosphere
What are convection currents?
Name three causes of climate change?
What are burning fossil fuels, deforestation, transportation, agriculture, livestock, human population growth?
This is the term for a species that lives in only one habitat or ecosystem
What is endemic?