Earth's Spheres
The outermost layer of the Earth atmosphere.
What is the exosphere?
The two driving forces of the entire cycle.
What is the sun and gravity?
Looking inside of the Earth, this is the center area.
What is the core?
The sphere that relates to bodies of water and glaciers.
What is the hydrosphere?
When water vapor rises from big bodies of water to the Earth's atmosphere.
What is evaporation?
Two terms that are used for organisms with cells?
What is unicellular and multicellular?
These move the Earth's surface, creating volcanoes and earthquakes.
What are Tectonic Plates?
The process by which plants make their own food
What is photosynthesis?
The layer of of the atmosphere that is the hottest layer.
What is the thermosphere ?
The four forms of precipitation.
What is rain, hail, sleet and snow?
Energy of an object that is in motion.
What is kinetic energy?
Mountains and caves are categorized in this sphere.
What is the geosphere?
The process in which plants release water from their leaves.
What is Transpiration?
The powerhouse of the cell
What is mitochondria?
Rocks that are made of tiny sediments of shells, sand and mud that are pressed together.
What are sedimentary rocks?
A tropical storm which includes heavy winds and rain, can be destructive to property.
What is a hurricane?
Name all of the layers of the atmosphere in order from bottom (the one we live in) to top.
What is Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, Exosphere.
This is needed for water vapor to turn into clouds. Also describes the process of Condensation
What is cooled temperatures?
A type of rock that starts as one but is changed into another over time and normally contain remains or leaves (fossils)
What are metamorphic rocks?
When two air masses come together?
What is an front/air front?