The Water Cycle
What is the process of turning a liquid into gas with heat?
Evaporation
How many interacting systems make up Earth?
4- Biosphere, geosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere
True or False: Summer is warmer than winter because the Earth is closer to the sun.
False - Summer is warmer because it receives more direct sunlight due to the tilt of Earth's axis.
What is the source for all energy on Earth?
The sun/sunlight
What are the three states of matter
solid, liquid, gas
_____ is the only substance on Earth that is naturally found as a solid, liquid, and gas.
Water
What does the root word atmo mean?
Air
What is Earth's rotation time?
24 Hours
What does abiotic mean?
Non-living, the features of an ecosystem that are not alive
What is all matter made up of?
Particles
What is the name of the worlds largest reservoir?
The ocean
Which Earth system are you apart of?
Biosphere
What is Earth's revolution time?
365.25 Days
What is a producer?
Organisms that can create their own food (plants)
What state of matter will take the shape of the container it is placed in, such as a water bottle?
Liquid
Name 4 forms of precipitation.
Rain, snow, sleet, hail
Which of the following is not apart of the geosphere:
rocks, soil, minerals, dirt, crust, core, magma, fossils
Fossils
Why does Earth experience four seasons?
The tilt of Earth's axis.
What is a food chain?
A series of organisms that eat one another so that energy and nutrients flow from one to the next.
What is taking place when cookie dough is baking in the oven?
A chemical change
The process of changing back to a liquid from a gas due to cooling.
Condensation.
What Earth systems are interacting when a mud slide occurs on a mountain?
Geosphere, and hydrosphere
What is the degree angle of Earth's axis?
23.5 Degrees
What is a tertiary consumer?
An animal that eats other animals to obtain nutrition and is at the top of the food chain
What is the metric unit of measurement for mass?
Gram