Miscellaneous
Name 3 Nonrenewable Resources
What are oil, natural gas, and coal or nuclear?
This is a split in the Earth's crust.
What is a fault?
This is the definition for rotation and what it causes.
What is the spinning motion of the planet Earth around its own axis, causing the cycle of day and night?
This is the substance that comes out of a volcano.
What is lava?
Name the earth's three main layers.
What is core, mantle, and crust?
What is evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and accumulation?
Define and provide an example of Weathering and Erosion.
What is weathering is the breaking down of rocks like mechanical where rain seeps in and cracks rocks or chemical where chemicals dissolve rocks and erosion is the movement of weathered rocks like wind or water carrying rocks away?
This is the definition for revolution and what it causes.
What is the movement of Earth in its orbit around the Sun that causes seasons in the year?
A natural event that causes great damage and loss of life.
What is a natural disaster?
What is the crust?
Name 3 Renewable Resources.
What is hydro, solar, wind, biomass, or geothermal?
Define what are plate tectonics.
What are enormous moving pieces of the earth’s lithosphere?
This is the definition for solstice and what it causes.
What is the longest or shortest daylight in the year and causes the start of summer or winter?
The term for the substance inside of the earth that causes volcanoes.
What is magma?
This layer holds in gases and the heat from the sun which allows life to exist on earth.
What is the atmosphere?
Name the difference between weather and climate.
What is weather is the short-term changes and climate is the conditions over a long period of time?
Describe Continental Drift Theory.
What is that the earth was once a supercontinent that divided and slowly drifted apart over millions of years?
This is the definition for equinox and what it causes.
What is equal amount of daylight and darkness and causes the start of fall or spring?
This is the device used to measure earthquakes.
What is a seismograph?
This layer of the earth is solid due to the immense pressure that it is under.
What is the inner core?
Identify the 5 climate zones.
What is tropical, temperate, dry, polar, and highlands/continental?
Name the four meanings of each "sphere":
1. Lithosphere
2. Biosphere
3. Hydrosphere
4. Atmosphere
What is:
1. Land
2. Life
3. Water
4. Air?
What is 23.5 degrees?
This is the degree of Earth's tilt.
A hurricanes strength is measured by this.
What is wind speed?
Plate tectonics is driven by the movement of this layer.
What is the mantle?