Heat Transfer
What is the term for heat being transferred through two objects touching?
Conduction
Hot air rises because it is ___________ dense than sold air.
Less
What is the geosphere?
All of Earth's rocks, inside and outside of the Earth
What is the difference between weathering and erosion?
Weathering is the breaking of rock while erosion is the transfer of that rock.
A river breaking away a part of a sand dune would be considered a smaller/larger change than wind carrying sand over the ocean.
Smaller
What is the term for heat transfer through invisible waves?
Radiation
Cool water is considered _________ dense than hot water.
What is the hydrosphere?
All of Earth's water, including ice and gases
What is deposition?
The placement of rock/the cease/stop of the movement of rocks
What scale of change would an ant moving a grain of sand be?
Microscopic
What is the term for heat transfer through the circulation of air and water?
Convection
What is more dense: Cold air or warm air?
Cold Air
What is the biosphere?
All living things on Earth, including bacteria
Name three agents of weathering (there are more than three!)
Wind, Ice, Water, Animals, Plants
What two scales of change would a meteor striking the Earth be?
Rapid and large
What form of heat transfer is going to heat the surface of the ocean?
Radiation
What is a convection cell?
A circulation of hot and cold matter transferring places.
What is the atmosphere?
How do most volcanoes get bigger?
The volcano explodes, depositing lava on the mountain. The lava cools into hardened rock.
What two scales of change would a pond filling with sediment be?
Small and slower
What heat transfer occurs in the hydropshere, atmosphere, and geosphere, but NOT the biosphere?
Convection
What causes a pot of water to boil?
Convection moving hot water up and cool water down.
True or false: The four of Earth's spheres are constantly interacting with each other.
True
A sandbar is a ridge of sand underwater and near a shore. Every couple of months, a layer of different sediments appears on the top of the previous layer of sediments. Where do these sediments come from?
Upstream in the river
Give an example of how a slow change can shape the land over time
Possible answers: Grand Canyon, Plate Tectonics, Ocean Coastlines