Vocabulary
Section 1 Questions
Section 2 Questions
Section 3 Questions
Vocabulary
100
The thin, solid, outermost zone of Earth
What is the crust?
100
Earth is an oblate spheroid, or slightly flattened sphere
Describe the size and shape of Earth.
100
1. Made up of mostly solid rock 2. Includes all the rock and soil on the surface of the continents and ocean floor
What are two characteristics of the geosphere?
100
Because its the part of Earth where all life exists
Why is the entire biosphere an ecosystem?
100
A pyramid used to see how energy is lost as it goes through the ecosystem
What is an energy pyramid?
200
Mantle
What is the layer that underlies the crust
200
The force of attraction between any two objects depends on the masses of the objects and the distance between the objects
What is Newton's Law of Gravitation?
200
Hydrosphere
What is the part of Earth that contains all of its water called?
200
Producers, consumers, and decomposers
List three factors that control the balance of the ecosystem
200
The part of Earth where life exists
What is the biosphere?
300
The center of the Earth
What is the core?
300
Earth's core because of the liquid iron inside of it
What is the possible source of Earth's magnetic field?
300
External and internal energy
What are the two main sourced of energy?
300
Because certain animals only consume other animals
Why does energy only flow in one way?
300
Food chain
The sequence in which organisms consume other organisms
400
System
What is an organized group of related objects or components that interact for a specific purpose called?
400
200 to 250 km thick
How thick is the asthenosphere?
400
CO2
What do plants convert to make carbohydrates?
400
By human activity
How do ecosystems respond to environmental change?
400
Represents the relationships between multiple food chains
What is a food web?
500
The largest population that an environment can support at any time.
What is carrying capacity?
500
crust, mantle, and the core
What are the compositional layers of the Earth?
500
Nitrogen cycle, Carbon cycle, Phosphorus cycle, and the Water cycle
What are the four cycles of Earth?
500
Food chain: the sequence in which organisms consume other organisms Food web: represents the relationships between multiple foos chains
What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?
500
Energy is transferred between systems, but it cannot be created or destroyed
What is the first law of thermodynamics?
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