Earth Systems Miscellaneous
The number of interacting systems that make up our Earth.
What is 4?
The meaning of the latin root "geo"
What is rock/ Earth
The meaning of the latin root "atmo"
What is air
Water that flows over land into rivers, streams, oceans etc.
What is runoff?
True or False: The biosphere contains all living things on Earth.
What is True?
Water is found on Earth in what three states?
What are Solid, Liquid, or Gas
The amount of layers of the atmosphere
What is 5?
This rock type is formed inside the Earth from heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic?
Which is not part of the biosphere?
plants, humans, bacteria, water
What is water?
The three types of plate boundaries?
What is convergent, divergent & transform?
The process by which water moves through the Earth and Atmosphere
What is the Water Cycle?
This atmospheric layer that contains the ozone layer.
What is the stratosphere?
This rock type is formed by lava cooling or magma hardening
What is igneous?
What is the term for a group of ecosystems with similar climates and communities? (Think research presentations that we did)
What is biome?
When plates slide past each other, this may cause a(n) ____________ to occur.
What is an earthquake?
Rain, sleet, snow, and hail are examples of ________.
What is precipitation?
Which layer contains all of the weather?
What is the troposphere?
A group of parts/ things that interact and work together to perform a job or function.
What is a system?
The difference between biotic and abiotic.
(Think last unit!)
What is biotic = living; abiotic = nonliving
The process by which rocks change into other types of rocks (metamorphic to igneous to sedimentary, etc)
What is the rock cycle?
The process that occurs when water changes from a liquid to a gas by heat (ex: The sun heats up water from the ocean)
What is evaporation?
What is the atmosphere?
What is a mixture of gasses that surrounds the Earth?