We're on a Plate
This is the outside layer of the Earth that we live on.
What is the crust?
These are caused by underwater earthquakes.
What are tsunamis?
This is the name for all of the water in, on, and around the Earth.
What is the hydrosphere?
This is the cloud of gases around the Earth held in place by gravity.
What is the atmosphere?
This is the name for the weather patterns in a given place over a long period of time.
What is climate?
This is the layer underneath the crust made of magma.
What is the mantle?
These are the waves that are released that cause earthquakes.
What are seismic waves?
The process by which water falls from clouds to the Earth.
What is precipitation?
This is caused by the weight of Earth's atmosphere at any given point.
What is atmospheric pressure or air pressure?
This is an instrument used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
This is the theory that says Earth's continents are moving away from each other.
What is continental drift?
This is what we call a volcano that hasn't recently erupted and shows no signs of erupting.
What is dormant?
The process by which water enters the atmosphere through small openings in the leaves of plants.
What is transpiration?
What are ultraviolet (UV) rays?
These are the two things that cause weather.
What are heat and pressure?
This is the theory that says that Earth's crust is broken into plates that meet each other at plate boundaries.
What is plate tectonics?
This is what we call a volcano that has recently erupted or will soon.
What is active?
The characteristic of water that makes it attracted to other molecules of water.
What is cohesion?
Earth's magnetosphere protects us by repelling these.
What are solar winds?
This is a boundary between two air masses with different temperatures and/or air pressures.
What is a front?
These are the types of plate boundaries that cause the strongest earthquakes
What are transform boundaries?
This is what we call a volcano that can no longer erupt.
What is extinct?
The characteristic of water that makes it attracted to other types of molecules
What is adhesion?
These are the two elements that make up 99% of Earth's atmosphere.
What are nitrogen and oxygen?
These are puffy, white clouds.
What are cumulus?