Astronomy
3rd rock from the sun
What is Earth?
Three types of plate boundaries.
What is Convergent, Divergent, and Transform?
Makes up roughly 97% of Earth's water.
What are the oceans?
Types of weather fronts
What is Cold Front, Warm Front, Stationary Front, and Occluded Front?
The three R's
What is Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle?
Creates seasons on Earth due to it's axis at 23.5 degrees
What is Earth's tilt?
The three major type of rocks.
What is Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic?
Makes up only about 1% of Earth's water.
What is freshwater?
The short term conditions of the atmosphere.
What is weather?
The most common GHG's(Greenhouse Gases).
What are Carbon Dioxide(CO2), Methane(NH4), and Water Vapor(H2O)?
Coordinate systems that are located using what two positions.
What is Longtitude(North to South) and Latitude(East to West)?
Crust, Mantle, Outer Core, and Inner Core.
What are the layers of the Earth?
The percentage of empty space in soil or sediment.
What is Porosity?
The three major climate zones.
What are Temperate, Tropic, and Polar zones?
Nonliving factors within the environment.
What is Abiotic?
Rotation & Revolution
What is:
Rotation-it is the spinning of the Earth on it's axis, roughly every 24 hours.
Revolution- the movement of the Earth around the sun, roughly every 365 days.
The type of waves measured on a Seismograph.
What are P waves and S waves?
The type of islands that protect the coast of North Carolina, they are named the Outer Banks.
What are the barrier islands?
The 5 layers of the Atmosphere.
What are Trophosphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, and Exosphere?
An energy source that is easily replaced after use over a short period of time.
What is Renewable?
The point in space where objects orbit each other, such as the Earth and the Moon.
What is the Barycenter?
Where most volcanoes and earthquakes occur on Earth.
What is the "Ring of Fire"?
The type of ocean current that brings warm water into the North Atlantic.
What is the Gulf Stream?
The discharge of electricity between the clouds.
What is lightening?
Depletion of dissolved oxygen in water due to decay, usually heavy in nitrogen and phosphorus.
What is Eutrophication?