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Week 1 Recap Juneteenth🖤
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What does bio mean in the word biosphere?
Life
100
Fill in the blank:
An element found in every ______ thing on Earth
living
100
What is our acronym for the water cycle?
Pat Adores The Elegant Cat
(Precipitation, Accumulation, Transpiration/ Evaporation, Condensation)
100
What is our acronym to help us remember the layers of atmosphere?
The Small Mouse Trips the Elepant
Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, Exosphere
100
Who made the greatest selling album of all time?
Michael Jackson aka the "King of Pop"
Thriller sold 70 million copies worldwide
200
The geosphere contains this material
Rocks & Minerals
200
What are two carbon sinks?
Ocean and Forest
200
True or false:
The majority of water on Earth is saltwater.
True!
About 97% of all water on Earth is saltwater.
200
What is the outer most layer of the atmosphere?
Exosphere
200
In 1955, Black people boycotted this mode of transportation in the fight against racial segregation
Bus
The was known as the Montgomery Bus Boycott
300
What Earth System refers to all the water processes on the Earth?
Hydrosphere
300
What historical event led to an imbalance in the carbon cycle? As a result there is more carbon in the atmosphere than there was ever before.
The Industrial Revolution
300
What part of the water cycle does liquid water fall onto the surface of the Earth?
Precipitation
300
What layer of the atmosphere do planes fly at?
Troposphere -- the lowest layer
300
What does germinate mean?
When a seed begins to sprout and grow
400
True or false
The atmosphere is all around us
True
The atmosphere includes the air right in front of our faces that we a cannot see.
400
How do plants remove carbon dioxide from the air?
They absorb it for photosynthesis
400
Where in the water cycle does water turn from liquid to gas?
Evaporation
400
This is the hottest layer of our atmosphere
the thermosphere
400
Katherine Johnson was a mathematical genius whose calculations helped send astronauts to the moon in the Apollo 11 mission. In 2016, a movie was created about her. What was the movie called?
Hidden Figures
500
Red clay dirt is apart of this earth system
pedosphere
500
Why is a lot of carbon in the atmosphere so bad?
A lot of carbon in the atmosphere contributes to global warming; where the planet gets warmer and warmer.
500
This force pulls water down onto Earth. What is the force?
Gravityyyyy
500
This layer is also known as Earth's meteor shield causing the rock to melt and vaporize before it reaches Earth
mesosphere
Hint: mesosphere and meteor both begin with M! Meso also means middle
500
Who was the first black mayor of Atlanta?
Hint: Our airport is named after him
Maynard Jackson