Systems
Surface Features in the Geosphere
The hydrosphere
Review questions
Misc
100

Give an example of feedback.

What is glaciers melting?

100

The ways land can be described.

What is elevation, relief, and landforms?

100

The three things the water in earth's ocean varies in.

What is salinity, temperature, and depth?
100

A system that gives itself information about itself after a change or event.

What is feedback?

100

The weight of clouds.

What is around one billion pounds?
200

The term for the part of hydrosphere that is frozen.

What is cryosphere?

200

List four destructive forces.

What is rain, wind, ice, and fire?

200

The water cycle.

What is evaporation, transpiration, condensation, and precipitation.

200

The cycles of matter in Earth's system are driven by movement of ___.

What is heat?

200

The name of the person who created the concept of gravitiy.

What is Sir Isaac Newton?

300
The definition of atmosphere and the gases it contains.

What is a thin envelope of gases that forms Earth's outermost layer? (nitrogen, oxygen, water vapor, carbon dioxide)

300

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?

300
The definition of aquifers.

What is rocks that hold water below the saturated zone.

300

How groundwater is replenished.

What is precipitation falls on the ground and seeps into aquifer?

300

Does sound travel faster in air or water?

What is water?
400

Give an example of the hydrosphere interacting with the geosphere.

What is raining or a lake, a volcanic eruption, or global warming.

400

Explain how GIS is useful for people trying to find out where to put their new store.

What is it helps people understand popular areas and patterns.
400

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.

400

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?

400

The rarest blood type in a human.

What is AB negative?

500

Name five of the spheres and give an example for each.

What is atmosphere ( gases), geosphere (rock), hydrosphere (water), cryosphere (ice), biosphere (living organisms)?

500

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?

500

Where most of Earth's fresh water is found and explain the steps.

What is frozen? (water, snow, ice)

500

_____ from plants and ________ from bodies of water both add water vapor to the _________.

What is transpiration, evaporation, and atmosphere?

500

What DNA stands for.

What is Deoxyribonucleic acid.

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