Systems
Give an example of feedback.
What is glaciers melting?
The ways land can be described.
What is elevation, relief, and landforms?
The three things the water in earth's ocean varies in.
A system that gives itself information about itself after a change or event.
What is feedback?
The weight of clouds.
The term for the part of hydrosphere that is frozen.
What is cryosphere?
List four destructive forces.
What is rain, wind, ice, and fire?
The water cycle.
What is evaporation, transpiration, condensation, and precipitation.
The cycles of matter in Earth's system are driven by movement of ___.
What is heat?
The name of the person who created the concept of gravitiy.
What is Sir Isaac Newton?
What is a thin envelope of gases that forms Earth's outermost layer? (nitrogen, oxygen, water vapor, carbon dioxide)
The definition of plateaus and plains.
What is plateaus are landforms with high elevation and low relief and plains are landforms that have low elevation and low relief?
What is rocks that hold water below the saturated zone.
How groundwater is replenished.
What is precipitation falls on the ground and seeps into aquifer?
Does sound travel faster in air or water?
Give an example of the hydrosphere interacting with the geosphere.
What is raining or a lake, a volcanic eruption, or global warming.
Explain how GIS is useful for people trying to find out where to put their new store.
How the pressure most likely differs at the top of a seamount and the bottom of a trench.
What is the pressure lighter at the top and it is heavier at the bottom because there is more water.
When ocean water reaches the poles some of it turns to ice. Some salt is trapped between ice crystals, but most is left behind in the frozen seawater. This causes an increase in....
What is salinity?
The rarest blood type in a human.
What is AB negative?
Name five of the spheres and give an example for each.
What is atmosphere ( gases), geosphere (rock), hydrosphere (water), cryosphere (ice), biosphere (living organisms)?
The reasons topographic maps have contour lines and the contour line known has the index countour.
What is topographic maps have contour lines to show elevations, relief, shape, and the fifth contour line is called the index contour?
Where most of Earth's fresh water is found and explain the steps.
What is frozen? (water, snow, ice)
_____ from plants and ________ from bodies of water both add water vapor to the _________.
What is transpiration, evaporation, and atmosphere?
What DNA stands for.
What is Deoxyribonucleic acid.