Unit 1
The name of the tectonic plate boundary that is characteristic of creating mountain ranges and volcanoes.
What is a convergent plate boundary?
The property of water requiring a considerable amount of energy to change forms.
The reason island communities are more vulnerable to rising sea levels.
What is they can not evacuate easily and are isolated?
Threatens native species and habitats after being introduced.
What is a non-native species?
The process by which the Sun produces it's energy.
What is nuclear fusion?
What is the combination of hydrogen to produce helium?
Plate boundaries of an actively forming mountain range have __________ as a side effect.
What are earthquakes?
Human activities can lead to this chemical being found in rain water. Rain water containing this chemical is known as acid rain.
What is sulfur dioxide?
Earth's spheres most closely impacted by surface mining.
What is the lithosphere?
What is the Biosphere?
Scientists test a fish near the top of their respective food chain and find high levels of toxins within their body.
The essential's provided by a star to their solar system.
What is heat and light?
What is solar radiation?
This would occur if the mantle's temperature decreased.
What is convection of the mantle would slow down?
What is tectonic plate movement would decrease/stop?
The reason why a coastal town is warmer than a city further inland.
What is the nearby ocean water maintaining the warmer temperature?
Wide spread deforestation leads to...
What is carbon dioxide being released to the atmosphere?
What is flooding?
What is loss of biodiversity?
What is increased ocean acidification?
A pond experiences an overgrowth of algae. Sunlight is no longer is as accessible below the overgrowth. This is what would occur as a result.
The function of the ozone layer.
Hot spots create volcanic islands in this way.
When salt water is introduced to an aquifer due to human activity.
What is salt water intrusion?
Disadvantages associated with wind power as a renewable resource.
What is sound pollution?
What is disturbing migration patterns of birds?
What is large amount of land needed?
Biodiversity is important to the biosphere for this reason.
What is a greater natural sustainability?
What is ecosystem resilience?
The motion of the Earth that has the largest role in seasons.
What is revolution?
The ways volcanic eruption interact with Earth's sphere (hydro, geo, atmo, and bio).
Biosphere: What is death of living organisms?
Hydrosphere: What is bodies of water getting warmer? What is bodies of water becoming acidic? What is water being polluted?
Atmosphere: What is harmful gases/pollutants entering the atmosphere?
Geosphere: What is the Earth's surface being reshaped?
This contributes to the differences between land and water temperatures.
What is heat absorption/ ability to absorb heat?
The human made chemical restricted to protect the ozone layer.
What are CFC's (chlorofluorocarbons)?
What is the conditions are fit (food, water, shelter, etc)?
What is the species is native and have the ability to survive there?
The reason why inner and outer planets differ.
What is their proximity to the sun when formed?