What is the largest biome? (hint: 75% of Earth is...)
Aquatic Biome
100
What is the inner Earth core consisted of?
iron–nickel alloy
100
What is divergent boundary?
Plates separating from one another (<-- -->)
100
Where does aurora occur?
Magnetosphere
100
What does it take to purify water?
Depends on where the water is from.
Ex) From nearby factories that excretes toxic wastes, chemical. Rain=filter. etc.
200
Aquatic biome allows organisms to sustain themselves and algae in the ocean huge amount of atmospheric CO2. Also provides important minerals such as salt.
What is the importance of Aquatic biome?
200
What is the importance of hydrosphere?
It provides WATER!!!
200
What are the outcomes of convergent boundary?
trenches, volcano, mountain
200
Why is ionosphere vital for mankind?
It allows radio communication since ions in the ionosphere reflects the radio waves back to Earth.
200
What would happen if factories excrete toxic wastes directly in to a body of water?
Eutrophication, thermopollution.
300
What are some specific locations that are considered as Semiarid Desert? And include one characteristic about semiarid desert.
North America, Newfoundland, Greenland, Russia, Europe and northern Asia. Average rainfall of 2-4 cm, drastic temperature differences, loose rock fragments, dry and etc.
300
What is the importance of ozone layer?
Blocks UV rays, regulates temperature
300
What is ring of fire?
It is an area where a large number of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur in the basin of the Pacific Ocean. (Around Japan, Philippines, Hawaii, Indonesia)
300
What burns in the mesosphere
Meteoroids
300
What would happen if you take out/don't have access to hydrosphere (water) for one day?
Ex) dehydration, can't digest, can't excrete waste, kidney malfunction and etc.
400
Name three animals that would live in Taiga biome
woodpeckers, hawks, moose, bear, weasel, lynx, fox, wolf, deer, hares, chipmunks, shrews, bats and etc.
400
What would happen if nitrogen cycle stops?
Plants will die, we will die, everything will die.
400
How is earthquake measured?
seismographs measure earthquakes into Richter scales. Seismographs measures the "vibration".
400
What sphere do we live in?
troposphere
400
Why is water important to our atmosphere?
Helps to regulate temperature.
500
What fraction of land's surface is considered as forest biome?
1/3
500
What is the importance of Biosphere?
It allows interaction of all organisms on Earth and helps regulate population of all organisms. (Therefore not one specie is living on Earth)