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 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 name of the EFFECT that keeps the Earth warm enough to sustain life.
What is the GREENHOUSE EFFECT?
This is the term used when one part of the crust collides with, and then moves UNDERNEATH, another part.
What is SUBDUCTION?
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?
When a volcano erupts lava and ash, causing fires, smoke, and landslides but eventually leading to new tree growth... these are the TWO Earth's SPHERES that are interacting in the LONG TERM.
What are GEOSPHERE and BIOSPHERE?
This is the layer of the atmosphere with the HIGHEST average TEMPERATURES.
What is the THERMOSPHERE?
What are Mantle, Outer Core, Inner Core, Crust?
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 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 responsible for wind, ocean currents, and continental drift.
What is CONVECTION?
This is the FULL NAME, SPELLED CORRECTLY, 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?
This is the number of CONSONANTS in the name for the TYPE of CRUST that is typically THINNER.
What is THREE?
(oCeaNiC)
These are the two FORCES/ENERGY that are responsible for the Hydrologic Cycle.
What are GRAVITY and HEAT (from the SUN)?
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
This is the THIRD LETTER of the name of the physical property of matter responsible for our atmosphere and geosphere being organized into layers.
What is N?
(DENSITY)
This is the number of VOWELS in:
- The name of the layer where the Northern Lights are; PLUS
- The name of the layer where weather takes place; PLUS
- The gas that is most plentiful in the atmosphere.
What is 11?
(thErmOsphErE; trOpOsphErE; nItrOgEn)
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 type of HUMAN ACTIVITY that is responsible for using up the MOST WATER each year.
What is AGRICULTURE?
Also acceptable: FARMING, GROWING FOOD
These are the names of the three PERIODS within the Era when dinosaurs existed (must name all THREE, in CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER.)
What are TRIASSIC, JURASSIC, and CRETACEOUS?
This is the STAGE of the WATER CYCLE that is indicated by the word spelled if you take:
- the FIRST letter of the atmosphere layer containing the ozone layer;
- the LAST letter of the name of the currents responsible for plate tectonics;
- the FIRST letter of the gas living things need to breathe; and
- the FIRST letter of the last name of the person who came up with the theory of continental drift.
What is PRECIPITATION?
(word is SNOW.)