Chapter 3
What is the outermost system of Earth called?
What is the Atmosphere?
What plate tectonics?
What is the theory that Earth is broken up into large rigid pieces?
What is a renewable resource?
What is weathering ?
What are the mechanical and chemical processes that change earths surface?
What is the name of the continuous cycle of water?
What is the water cycle?
What is the group called that classifies all living organisms on Earth?
What is the Biosphere?
What are the 3 plate boundries?
What are divergent, convergent, and transform boundries?
What are 2 non-renewable resources?
What are uranium and fossil fuels?
Can plant roots break up rocks?
Yes, they can cause weathering.
What is it called when liquid water changes into a gas?
What is evaporation?
What is water found beneath Earth's surface called?
What is ground water?
What are tectonic plates made of?
What is the lithosphere?
What is difference of coal and oil?
Coal is made of dead plant matter, while oil is dead micro organisms
Does limestone easily in water?
Yes, water has some slight acidity.
What is rain and snow called from a scientific view?
What gas makes up 78% of Earth's atmosphere?
What is Nitrogen?
What plate boundary causes the most vocanoes?
What are convergent boundaries with subduction?
What are the 3 types of fossil fuels?
What causes the most erosion on earth?
What is water?
Where does 75% of precipitation fall?
The ocean.
What is uppermost part of the atmosphere called?
What is convection?
What is the differences in density and thermal energy that can cause plate movement?
What is nuclear energy?
What is energy released by nuclear fission and fusion?
What is the opposite of erosion?
What is the average weather pattern called over a period of time?
What is climate?