Hydrosphere
These are the three steps of the water cycle.
What are evaporation, condensation, and precipitation?
This weather tool measures the temperature.
What is a thermometer?
The rock cycle is made of these three rock types.
What is sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous?
These are the three renewable energy sources.
What are wind, water, and solar?
The mantle behaves like this substance.
What is caramel?
This is what happens when excess precipitation isn't soaked up by the Earth, creating streams and rivers.
What is run-off?
All weather and clouds form in this layer of the atmosphere.
What is the troposphere?
These are the four layers of the Earth in order from farthest from the center to closest to the center.
What are the crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core?
These are the three nonrenewable energy sources.
What are gas, oil (petroleum), and coal?
This is the hottest layer of the atmosphere.
What is the thermosphere?
This body of water can contain fresh water or saltwater.
What are lakes?
When weather is tracked for over 30 years, it can be defined as this.
What is climate?
This type of tectonic plates can either form mountains or trenches.
What are convergent boundaries?
This renewable energy source can use dams to power electricity.
What is water (hydroelectric) energy?
Name one other type of eco-friendly energy source.
What is nuclear, fusion, or geothermal energy?
Aquifers are underground reserves of water, making them this kind of fresh water source.
What is groundwater?
This layer of the atmosphere is found between 31 and 50 miles above the surface of the earth.
What is the mesosphere?
This is the scientist who first proposed the tectonic plates theory.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
This is how long the average wind turbine's blade is.
What is 125 yards?
This is also known as "plant sweat".
What is transpiration?
Water availability is made up of these three elements.
What is having access, having enough, and having drinkable water?
This weather tool locates and predicts precipitation.
What is a weather radar?
The outer and inner cores are made of these two metals.
What are iron and nickel?
Fossil fuels are made of the rotting organic matter from that source.
What are dinosaurs?
The inner core is growing by this much each year.
What is 1 millimeter?