Tectonic Plates
Earth's Layers
Earth's Atmosphere
The Water Cycle
Challege
100
Tectonic plates rest on this.
What is the mantle?
100
These are Earth's 4 layers.
What is the crust, mantle, inner core, and outer core?
100
This is the layer of atmosphere we live in.
What is the troposphere?
100
This is any form of water that falls from the clouds back to Earth.
What is precipitation?
100
This is what happens to air pressure and temperature as altitude increases.
What is decreasing?
200
This movement under the Earth's crust causes the movement of tectonic plates.
What is convection?
200
This is the thickest layer.
What is the mantle?
200
These are the two most common gases in the atmosphere.
What are oxygen and nitrogen?
200
These are the three states of matter.
What are solid, liquid, and gas?
200
This is evidence that there was once a supercontinent on Earth called Pangea.
Why do the continents fit together like a puzzle?
300
This is one piece of evidence (proof) that Alfred Wegener used to explain his theory of continental drift.
Why do we find the same fossils on different continents?
300
This is the most liquid-like layer of Earth.
What is the outer core?
300
Meteors burn up here.
What is the mesosphere?
300
This is the process by which a gas turns into a liquid in cool conditions.
What is condensation?
300
This is the proper name for the "Northern Lights" that light up the night sky in the atmosphere.
What is the Aurora Borealis?
400
Mountains form from this type of plate boundary.
What is a convergent collision boundary?
400
These are the elements that compose the inner and outer core.
What are nickel and iron?
400
This is one of the 1% of gases that are found in the atmosphere.
What are argon, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide.
400
This is the process that allows your wet bathing suit to dry on a hot summer day.
What is evaporation?
400
This is the scientist who Neil deGrasse Tyson thinks is the smartest person to have ever lived.
Who was Sir Issac Newton?
500
Earthquakes result from this plate boundary.
What is a transform boundary?
500
This is when new oceanic crust is created by magma flowing up from the mantle.
What is sea-floor spreading?
500
These are the 5 layers of Earth's atmosphere in order.
What are the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, exosphere?
500
This is the process by which a gas turns into a solid.
What is sublimation?
500
This is the grade we can all get if we study for at least 1 hour (with flashcards) and concentrate and remain silent during the test.
What is 100%?
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