Earth's Layers
The outermost layer of the Earth.
What is Crust?
What is Pangea?
Long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns.
What is Climate Change?
Any action performed by humans that has an impact on the environment.
What is Human Activity?
The introduction of harmful materials into the environment.
What is Pollution?
Thin, dense crust under the ocean
What is Oceanic?
The German scientist responsible for the theory of "continental drift".
Who is Alfred Wegener?
This is a chemical in the atmosphere responsible for trapping heat on Earth's surface.
What is Greenhouse Gas?
What is Human Impact?
When harmful substances contaminate a body of water.
What is Water Pollution?
What is Mantle?
What is Divergent?
The long-term warming of the planet's overall temperature.
What is Global Warming?
The action of clearing a wide area of trees.
Contamination of the indoor or outdoor atmosphere.
Hint: What is the "atmosphere"?
What is Air Pollution?
Thick, not-dense crust under land
What is Continental?
This plate boundary occurs when two plates come together.
What is Convergent?
These three things are increasing with global warming.
What is Global Temperature, Ocean Warming, and Sea Levels?
When the population of a species rises to exceed the environment's carrying capacity.
What is Overpopulation?
Solar Power, Wind Power, Hydropower, Bioenergy, Geothermal are all examples of this type of energy source.
What is Renewable?
What is Inner Core?
This plate boundary occurs when two plates rub against each other.
What is Transform?
The process through which heat is trapped near Earth's surface
Hint: Is also a structure on Earth made to help grow plants.
What is Greenhouse Effect?
The harvesting of a renewable resource to the point of diminishing returns.
What is Overharvesting?
The presence of any unwanted, inappropriate, or excessive artificial lighting.
What is Light Pollution?