Geosphere
Biosphere/Atmosphere
Water Cycle
Biogeochemical Cycles
Miscellaneous
100
What makes up the geosphere?
Rock
100
What makes up the biosphere?
All the living and once living organisms.
100
What is the other name for the water cycle?
Hydrologic cycle
100
What is all of the undiscovered carbon called?
Carbon sink
100
Give an example of a primary producer.
Plant
200
How many tectonic plates are found on Earth?
15
200
Why is ozone important?
Filters the sun's UV light.
200
The release of water vapor (gas) from plants leaves.
Transpiration
200
What are the 2 products of photosynthesis?
Sugar, carbon dioxide
200
What is the conversion of a liquid to a gas?
evaporation
300
What makes up the lithosphere?
The crust and upper part of the mantle.
300
Name the 2 greenhouse gases.
Methane, carbon dioxide.
300
What are underground storage areas for water called?
Aquifer
300
What is the conversion of nitrogen gas to ammonia called?
Nitrogen fixation
300
Which type of plate boundary causes earthquakes?
Transform
400
What is convection?
The heating and cooling of rocks that allows them to rise and sink.
400
Which gas makes up most of the atmosphere?
Nitrogen
400
Give 2 ways that humans are impacting the water cycle.
Depleting the groundwater with irrigation, runoff, pollution, clearing plants
400
What 2 "spheres" is phosphorous mainly found in?
Lithosphere, atmosphere
400
What is the removal of soil by water, wind, etc.?
Erosion
500
What are the 3 tectonic plates? Explain each!
Convergent-plates collide Divergent-plates separate Transform-plates slide
500
Why are greenhouse gases beneficial for humans?
Keep us warm!
500
What is the upper limit that an aquifer can hold called?
Water table
500
What is eutrophication?
Nitrogen and phosphorous are found in high amounts in bodies of water, oxygen levels are low and algae begins to grow.
500
What is the difference between positive and negative feedback loops?
Negative-inputs and outputs cancel each other out, stabilizes. Positive-Driven toward extreme
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