Systems
Energy
Rock on
Earthquakes
Plates
100
What can be exchanged in an open system
Anything - matter, energy
100
What is coal made of?
Dead/decomposing plants and animals
100
How are metamorphic rocks formed?
Heat and Pressure
100
What can a P wave travel through?
Gas, Solids, Liquids
200
What can be exchanged in a closed system?
Energy only
200
List 3 Renewable energy sources
Solar, Wind, Water (when using the power of the water)....
200
How are sedimentary rocks formed
sediments come together, squeeze out solution and cement together
200
What can an S wave travel through?
Solids only
200
What type of boundary has plates sliding past eachother?
Transform
300
List Earth's 4 spheres
Atmosphere, biosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere
300
List 3 non-renewable energy sources
Coal, Gas, fossil fuels....
300
How are igneous rocks formed?
Cooling and hardening of lava
300
What type of boundary has plates sliding past eachother?
Transform
300
What type of boundary has plates sliding apart from eachother?
Divergent
400
Give two examples of one sphere affecting another sphere
Answers vary... Ex: Volcano erupting- geosphere affecting the atmosphere, affecting the biosphere...
400
What are the benefits/harms of CO2 in the atmosphere?
It keeps us warm, but too much keeps us too warm (global warming.)
400
What does intrusive and extrusive mean
intrusive means the rock was formed inside the earth, extrusive formed outside
400
What type of boundary has plates sliding toward eachother?
Convergent
500
What does it mean to conserve and protect resources?
Not to over use, to figure out alternative sources, to protect our nonrenewables
500
How does the rock cycle work?
Draw it up on the board!
500
If a continental crust plate and an oceanic plate converge, which one subducts (slides under the other)? Why?
Oceanic, because it is more dense
500
What moves tectonic plates?
Convection currents
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