Weather
The condition of the atmosphere at a given time and place.
What is weather?
The layer of the atmosphere where most weather takes place.
What is the Troposphere?
Name the layers of the Earth from the outside to the innermost layer.
Crust, Mantle, Outer Core, and Inner Core
The breaking and changing of rocks.
What is weathering?
What is a volcano?
A device that measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
True or False: Air takes up space.
True
Name the layers of the Earth from the hottest to the coolest.
Inner core, Outer core, Mantle, and Crust
The moving of weathered rocks and soil by wind, water, or ice.
What is erosion?
What is a mountain?
The push when compressed air pushed back.
What is pressure?
Name the two gases that make up most of the gas in the atmosphere. (In order)
What are nitrogen and oxygen?
The layer of the Earth that is solid iron and nickle.
The movement of tectonic plates can result in three events happening.
What are volcanoes, earthquakes, and mountains?
Flat land that can still have some small hills.
What is a plain?
The units that wind direction is measured by a wind vane.
What is North, East, South, and West?
The layer of the Earth's atmosphere that fades into space.
What is the Exosphere?
The layer of the Earth that consists of super heated liquid molten lava.
What is the outer core?
Tectonic plates that move past one another.
What are transform boundaries?
What is a plateau?
Forced air into a smaller space.
What is compressed?
True or False: Air has no mass.
False
What is the lithosphere?
Tectonic plates that move away from each other.
What are divergent boundaries?
Name a volcano.
Any volcano is correct!