Weathering & Erosion
The breaking down of rock
What is weathering?
liquid to gas
What is evaporation?
A natural feature on Earth's surface.
What is a landform?
The condition of the atmosphere at any given moment.
What is the weather?
what is the hydrosphere?
What is sediment?
gas to liquid.
What is condensation?
This landform is created where water meets land.
What is a coastline?
The long-term weather patterns in an area.
What is climate?
the rocky solid part of the Earth that includes the planet's crust, mantle, and core.
What is the geosphere?
The 3 types of weathering we discussed in class this week.
What are physical/mechanical, chemical, and biological weathering?
rain, sleet, hail, snow.
What is precipitation?
This landform is sometimes created by meteors crashing into the planet and creating craters that are then filled with precipitation.
What is a lake?
as you get further away from the equator you would find that temperatures _________.
What is decrease?
The layer of the atmosphere where all weather on the planet occurs.
What is the troposphere?
The agents of erosion.
(100 points for each correct response)
What are water, wind, ice, and gravity?
liquid to solid
What is freezing?
There is less oxygen at the top of these high altitude landforms.
What are mountains?
Temperature decreases by ____ ____ ___ for every 1km increase in altitude.
What is 11 degrees Fahrenheit?
The reason why some scientist believe there are 4 spheres instead of 5.
What is "the cryosphere is included in the hydrosphere because ice is still a form of water?"
Occurs where the agents of erosion deposit, or lay down, sediment
What is deposition?
solid to gas
What is sublimation?
A partially enclosed coastal body where fresh water from a river or stream mixes with salt water from the ocean.
(pronunciation counts)
What is an estuary?
The factors that affect climate.
(100 points for each correct answer)
What are altitude, latitude, distance from large bodies of water, ocean currents, and global prevailing winds?
In recent years, many products that people use have released chemicals into the air. This has slightly changed the composition of the air that surrounds the planet.
This is an example of the ________ interacting with the _______.
What is the biosphere interacting with the atmosphere?