Atmosphere
This is the layer of the atmosphere where most/all weather takes place.
What is the TROPOSPHERE?
This is the term used for the pieces of the crust that move and sometimes bump into each other.
What are TECTONIC PLATES?
This is the approximate percentage of water on Earth that is FRESHWATER.
What is 3%?
This is the name of the extinction that took place between the MESOZOIC and CENOZOIC eras.
What is the K-T or K-Pg EXTINCTION?
This is the name of the Earth's SPHERE that the Titanic was a part of.
What is the BIOSPHERE?
This is the name of the EFFECT that keeps the Earth warm enough to sustain life.
What is the GREENHOUSE EFFECT?
This is the name for the movement of molten earth where hot fluids rise and cool fluids sink, and is responsible for tectonic plate movement.
What are CONVECTION CURRENTS?
Of the following choices, this is the form that most freshwater on Earth is in:
- Rivers and lakes
- Groundwater
- Ice/Glaciers
What is ICE/GLACIERS?
This is the name of the law that states younger rock layers are closer to the surface while older layers are on the bottom.
What is the Law of Superposition?
This is the total NUMBER of LAYERS in the GEOSPHERE and ATMOSPHERE. combined.
What is NINE (9)?
(Inner Core, Outer Core, Mantle, Crust, Tropo, Strato, Meso, Thermo, Exo)
This is the layer of the atmosphere with the HIGHEST average TEMPERATURES.
What is the THERMOSPHERE?
This is the term used when one part of the crust collides with, and then moves UNDERNEATH, another part.
What is SUBDUCTION?
These are the two FORCES/ENERGY that are responsible for the Water Cycle.
What are GRAVITY and HEAT (from the SUN.)
This is the name of the ERA that we are CURRENTLY in (aka Age of Mammals.)
What is the CENOZOIC ERA?
(Age of Mammals)
This is the name of the movement that is primarily responsible for tradewinds and ocean currents.
What is CONVECTION?
This is the name of the RADIATION from the Sun that the atmosphere protects us from. Must answer with the FULL name, not the acronym.
What is ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION?
What are Mantle, Outer Core, Inner Core, Crust?
This is the type of human activity that is responsible for using the most WATER each year.
What is AGRICULTURE?
Also acceptable: FARMING
This is the correct CHRONOLOGICAL order (from oldest to youngest) of the following:
A. Humans emerge
B. Dinosaurs go extinct
C. Land plants begin to grow
D. The galaxy forms
E. Oxygen begins to build in the atmosphere
What is:
D. The galaxy forms
E. Oxygen begins to build in the atmosphere
C. Land plants begin to grow
B. Dinosaurs go extinct
A. Humans emerge
When a volcano erupts lava and ash, causing fires, smoke, and landslides and eventually killing forests and wildlife...these are the TWO Earth's SPHERES that are interacting in the LONG TERM.
What are GEOSPHERE and BIOSPHERE?
This is the name for the TYPE of CRUST that is typically THINNER.
What is OCEANIC CRUST?
This is the PRODUCT of the ATOMIC NUMBERS of the TWO METALLIC ELEMENTS that primarily make up the INNER CORE.
What is 728? (Nickel-28 and Iron-26)
This is the name of the TWO stages of the WATER CYCLE that:
A) is responsible for clouds forming.
B) involves water being released by plants.
What are CONDENSATION and TRANSPIRATION?
This is the name of the PENINSULA where the crater from the asteroid that is believed by many to have caused the extinction of the dinosaurs, is located.
What is the YUCATAN PENINSULA?
This is the PHYSICAL PROPERTY of MATTER that is most directly responsible for the GEOSPHERE and ATMOSPHERE being organized into LAYERS.
What is DENSITY?