Ch. 8: Water
Is found on Earth in all 3 forms naturally; 75% of the Earth's planet
What is water?
The two most abundant gases in the atmosphere.
What are Nitrogen and Oxygen?
The term for an element that have different numbers of neutrons.
What is an isotope?
What is the "bar magnet" in Earth's north and south pole?
What is Earth's magnetic field?
The theory that states that the continents today were actually together a long time ago.
What is the Continental Drift Theory?
At least four parts of a stream (there's more than one).
Headwaters, tributaries, main river, mouth, confluence, divide
Atmospheric layers in order from Earth to space. (+20 Extra points: What are the other three minor layers?)
What is the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere?
Extra Points: Ozone layer, magnetosphere, ionosphere.
The names of two of the three types of chemical bonds.
What are ionic, covalent, and hydrogen bonds?
The degree measure in which Earth is tilted on its axis.
What is 23.5ยบ?
The three different types of plate boundaries.
What are convergent, divergent, and transform plate boundaries?
The three main parts of the water cycle. (+10 Extra points: name the other two parts)
What is evaporation, condensation, and precipitation?
Extra points: transpiration, sublimation.
The three types of heat transfer.
What is conduction, convection, and radiation?
What is solid, crystalline, naturally occurring, inorganic, and a specific chemical composition?
The three types of seismic waves.
What are P-waves, S-waves, and surface waves?
What is Pangaea?
The ocean zones in order from the shore to the ocean.
What are the intertidal, neritic, and oceanic zones?
What are cold fronts, warm fronts, occluded fronts, and stationary fronts?
Four of the six physical properties of a mineral.
What is color, streak, luster, density, cleavage/fracture, and hardness?
Earth's three layers in order from top of the Earth to the middle.
What is the crust, mantle, and core?
A sudden release of energy due to moving tectonic plates.
What is an earthquake?
At least two different types of currents (there are more than four).
What is the rip current, longshore current, Gulf Stream, and thermohaline current?
Five of the seven EM waves. (+20 Extra Points: Name all of them)
Any of these: Radio, microwaves, infrared, visible light, UV waves, X-Ray, Gamma-ray
The three ways minerals are formed.
What is magma, lava, and solution formation?
The two layers of Earth that move on top of each other causing plate tectonics.
A mountain that has a chamber in which magma, rock, or steam, comes out from within the Earth; usually found along plate boundaries and subduction zones.
What is a volcano?