Name It
Made of molten nickel
What is the Geosphere - Core of the earth?
Where all living things live
What is the biosphere?
The cause of weather
What is the uneven heating of the earth?
Five islands of this is in the oceans
What is floating plastic ?
Five layers of earth
What are the crust, upper mantle, lower mantle, outer core, and the inner core. (any order up or down)
A layer of the atmosphere that holds heat
What is the thermosphere?
Contains gases
What is the atmosphere?
Animals and plants interacting as a cycle in five steps
What is producer, consumer, predator, decomposition, producer
OR
grass, rabbit, coyote, bacteria, plants
This fuel causes CO 2 to be released into the atmosphere
What are fossil fuels?
Five layers of the atmosphere
What are exo, thermo, meso, strata, troposphere?
(any order)
shifting land masses
What are tectonic plates?
Animals with a backbone
What are vertebrates?
This causes precipitation
What is cooling of water vapor ?
the number of people on the planet
What is about 8 billion?
five layers of the earth
inner core, outer core, lower mantle, upper mantle, crust
OR
crust, upper mantle, lower mantle, outer core, and inner core
The outermost layer of the atmoshere
What is the Exosphere?
Creatures with no backbone
What are invertebrates?
describe cumulus
a big fluffy cloud
3 "R"s to help the planet
What is Recycle, Reduce, Reuse (Recover)?
four parts of the water cycle
What are evaporation, condensation, precipitation, transportation?
Wind and rain can cause the land to wear away
What is erosion?
The top part of the earth
What is the crust?
layered clouds
stratus
Three types of fossil fuels
What is oil, coal gas?
Four types of precipitation
What is rain, sleet, snow, hail?
This air pressure indicates a storm is coming
What is low barometric pressure?
Water that covers most of the earth
What are oceans?
hydrosphere
layer of water around the earth
Wind, water, solar, and geothermal represent this kind of energy
What are renewable resources?
Name three groups of vertebrates
What are (three of these):
Mammals, fish, birds reptiles, amphibians
The tool that measures wind speed
What is an Anemometer ?
Glaciers, ponds, rivers, contain this
What is fresh water?
the process of water moving through changes
What is the water cycle?
How a house can produce energy
What are solar panels?
name three cloud types
What are: (3) Cumulus, nimbus, cirrus, status
What creates north and south
What is magnetic force at opposite ends of the poles?
The two gases present most on earth
What are oxygen and nitrogen?
Name the FBI
What are
Fungus
Bacteria
Invertebrates
Three ways to conserve water
Don't run water as you brush teeth. Use grey water to water gardens, have drought-resistant gardens
5 parts of a plant
What are: roots, stem/trunk, branches, leaves/ needles, flowers/cones, seeds
The layer where you can find satellites
What is the exosphere layer?
Percentage of water covering earth
What is approximately 71% ?
Way that the earth's core becomes the crust
What is volcanic action?
How humans can improve the air
Plant more trees
Quit cutting down trees
Quit releasing emissions
list of mammals
What is: they have fur, give birth to live young, mothers feed babies milk, warm-blooded
The ocean current the causes weather off the CA coast
What is El Nino?
The percentage of CO 2 in the air
What is .03% ?
transpiration
What is water being released from leaves on plants?
Ways humans shape the earth
What are: Erosion though clear-cutting.
Farming
Mining
Dams
List living things Not plants) in order of complexity
What is Bacteria/viruses, fungi, invertebrates, then amphibians, fish, reptiles, birds, mammals