Lithosphere
Plate Tectonics
Ecology
Biosphere
Climate Change & Sustainability
100
What is the rock cycle?
What is the continuous, dynamic set of processes by which rocks are changed into other types of rock?
100
Explain continental drift.
What is the theory that the crustal plates are moving over the mantle over time.
100
Name the four ecological levels.
What is organism, population, community, and ecosystem?
100
What is the biosphere?
What is The portion of Earth that supports living things?
100
Explain renewable and non-renewable resources.
What is (renewable)- can be replaces within a human lifetime; (non-renewable)- supply is limited and can not be replaced?
200
What does foliated and non-foliated mean and give an example of each.
What is (foliated)- metamorphic rock, such as schist or gneiss, whose minerals are squeezed under high pressure and arranged in wavy layers and bands. EX- Slate, gneiss, schist, amphibolite. (Non-foliated)- minerals are not arranged in wavy layers and bands. EX- Coal, Marble, soapstone.
200
what are the three types of faults?
What is divergent, transform, and convergent?
200
Explain biotic and abiotic.
What are (biotic factors)- all of the living things or their materials that affect an organism in an environment and (abiotic factors)- non-living things in an environment (EX-sun or temperature)
200
Explain biodiversity.
What is the variety of all life forms: the different plants, animals, and micro-organisms; their genes and the ecosystems of which the are a part of.
200
List and explain at least five different energy sources.
What is geothermal energy, hydroelectric energy, passive and active solar energy, petroleum, biogas/biomass, peat, fossil fuels, nuclear power, wind energy, natural gases, coal/oil, hydrogen fuel cell.
300
Define physical and chemical weathering.
What is (physical)- the class of processes that causes the disintegration of rocks without chemical change. What is (chemical)- the breakdown of rock by chemical mechanisms, the most important ones being carbonation, nitration, hydrolysis, oxidation, and ion exchange in solution.
300
Name two types of volcanoes.
What is strato and shield.
300
Explain the four ecological levels.
What is (organism)- one living thing (population)- group of organisms of the same species living together (community)- collection of interacting populations (ecosystem)- organisms and their physical surroundings.
300
Why are humans dependent on biodiversity and what are some threats to biodiversity?
What is Humans count on biodiversity for food, medicines, health, and enjoyment of life; threats to biodiversity include population growth and unsustainability, desertification, climate change, and invasive species.
300
Explain carbon sink and carbon sources.
What is (carbon sinks)- anything that absorbs more carbon than it releases; (carbon sources)- anything that releases more carbon than it stores?
400
List and tell the differences between the three main types of rocks.
What is (sedimentary)- type of rock formed by the deposition of material at the Earth's surface and within bodies of water. (metamorphic)- rocks that from only at the high temperatures and pressure associated with the process of metamorphism. (igneous)- intrusive or extrusive rock formed from the cooling and crystallization of magma.
400
What are the three types of volcanic cones?
What is cinder, shield and composite?
400
Define ecology.
What is The study of the interactions between organisms and their environments?
400
Name the two types of limiting factors and explain how they are different form one another.
What is density dependent and density independent limiting factors; (density dependent)- depends on population size (EX. food/ competitors), and (density independent)- doesn't depend on population size (EX. natural disasters or climate)
400
Which three countries supply the US with the most oil?
What is Mexico, Venezuela, and Canada?
500
What is compaction?
What is the consolidation of sediments resulting from the weight of overlying deposits?
500
Explain P and S waves.
What is (P wave)- primary waves; first detected and travel to the center of the earth. (S wave)- surface waves; second waves detected and also travel to the center of the Earth. (surface waves)- travel along Earth's surface with little detection in the lithosphere.
500
Define habitat, terrestrial, and aquatic and give examples of animals that live in both terrestrial and aquatic habitats.
What is (habitat)- the place where an organism lives out its life. (terrestrial)- land habitats (aquatic)- water habitats
500
Define biome and tell about three different biomes.
What is (biome)- a distinct combination of the plant and animals and climates. EX; Taiga, Tundra; Temperate Deciduous Forest; Desert; Tropical Rain Forest; Temperate Grasslands; Tropical Seasonal Forest.
500
What is reclamation and explain the saying "human footprints on Earth".
What is (reclamation)- the process in which a mining company restores land used during a mining period to its original vegetation and state. Human footprint on Earth is the term used to describe the lasting effects that human beings are leaving on the Earth.
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