Atmosphere
The typical environmental conditions of a specific region.
What is climate?
3 of the main components of the Geosphere.
What are rocks, minerals, molten rock, heavy metals, the earth's crust?
A large accumulation of crystalline ice, snow, rock, sediment, and often liquid water that originates on land and moves down slope under the influence of its own weight and gravity.
What is a glacier?
The fluid that makes up most of the body.
What is water?
The grades Eva teaches.
What are 9th and 12th grade.
The imaginary horizontal lines that determine the amount of solar radiation a region receives.
What is latitude?
What happens when underground rock suddenly breaks.
What is an earthquake?
The body of water that produces the majority of the oxygen on Earth.
What is the ocean?
The percent of the body's oxygen the brain uses.
What is 20%?
Where Eva is from.
What is Boston?
The characteristic of the Earth that makes it winter in the Northern hemisphere when it's summer in the Southern hemisphere.
What is the Earth's tilt?
The geological feature that is formed by tectonic plates shifting and colliding.
What are mountains?
The amount of the ocean that is protected.
What is less than 2%?
The part of their body that Lizards use to smell.
What is their tongue?
Where Eva went to college.
What is Vanderbilt?
The reflectivity of a surface that results in temperature differences.
What is albedo?
The phenomenon that releases gases that both warm and cool the planet.
What are volcanic eruptions?
What is the system through which all water in the hydrosphere is connected?
What is the water cycle?
A fruit that is radioactive.
What are bananas?
Eva's favorite season.
What is the fall?
The term that describes the deflection of winds toward the right in the Northern hemisphere and toward the left in the Southern hemisphere.
What occurs when rocks and fossilized plants are used for coal and other fossil fuels.
What is carbon being released?
3 threats to the hydrosphere
What are fossil fuels, pollution, ocean acidification, ocean eutrophication, warming ocean, overexploitation of water resources?
The length of time a cockroach can live without its head.
What is a week?
What is the spaghetti and marshmallow challenge?