Earth & It's Structure
This layer of the Earth is the liquid layer of magma, kept liquefied by the intense heat of the core
What is Earth's Mantle?
These are the three properties of soil
What is Sand, Clay, and Silt?
This is the most important greenhouse gas, although it makes up less than 1% of the Earth’s atmosphere gasses
What is Carbon Dioxide?
This is the phrase for incoming solar radiation that reaches Earth's surface
What is insolation?
This occurs when a body of water becomes excessively enriched with nutrients, potentially leading to algal blooms and dead zones
What is Eutrophication?
This area can predict where earthquakes will likely occur
What are Transform Faults?
This is the word for water's ability to drain through soil
What is permeability?
This element is the most common gas in the atmosphere
What is Nitrogen?
This is the proportion of light that is reflected by a surface
What is Albedo?
This land structure refers to an area of land where water drains into a larger body of water
What is a watershed?
This word describes the type of tectonic plates that move away from one another
What is Divergent Plates?
This is the word for the amount of water a soil sample is able to hold
What is porosity?
This layer is where the weather occurs and is the layer we live in
What is the Troposphere?
Variations of this is caused by the difference in Earth's tilt and orbit in relation to the Sun
What is Seasons?
These areas of ocean are where winds blow warm surface water away from a land mass, drawing up colder, deeper water to replace it
What is an Upwelling zone?
This is the geographical area that encompasses a pattern of volcanoes, surrounding the Pacific Plate
What is the Ring of Fire?
This phrase is what the percentage of sand, silt, and clay is referred to as
What is soil texture?
This layer is the hottest place on Earth due to the amount of solar radiation that it absorbs
What is the Thermosphere?
This affects the intensity of the sun’s rays on earth’s surface
What is the Earth's Tilt?
This phrase refers to the large circulation patterns in the ocean due to global winds
What is Gyres?
The solid, flexible outer layer of the mantle, lying beneath the lithosphere
What is the Asthenosphere?
This is the breakdown of rocks in smaller pieces, where these pieces are carried away and deposited by erosion
What is Weathering?
This layer is the middle layer of the atmosphere and is the coldest place on Earth
What is the Mesosphere?
This area has the highest insolation than any other place on Earth
What is the Equator?
This is the large-scale ocean circulation that connects all of the world's oceans, mixing salt, nutrients, and temperatures
What is Thermohaline Circulation?