Weather and Atmosphere
The ______________________ is the lowest layer of the atmosphere.
Troposphere
What is the process of moving sediments from one location to another?
Erosion
Resources that is always available or naturally replaced in a timely manner is called...
renewable resource
The earth is the center of the solar system and all things revolve around it is which model?
geocentric
The theory that explains how the universe began 13.7 billion years ago is called ____________________________.
Big Bang
Rain, hail, sleet, and snow are all types of _________________.
precipitation
What is the shaking of the Earth’s crust caused by the release of energy?
Earthquake
What is conservation?
Managing the use of resources so they last longer
Who developed the law of Universal Gravitation?
Sir Isaac Newton
In what shape do the planets orbit the sun?
Elipse
True and False:
Scientists use climate to determine weather.
False
The San Andres ________________ is a zone where many Earthquakes originate.
fault
What are the three methods of waste disposal?
burning, burying, recycling
Star systems that have two stars are called
Binary
The inner planets are closer to the sun than the outer planets, have high temperatures, are closer to each other and are ____________________________.
Terrestrial
The tool used to measure atmospheric pressure is a ____________________________________.
Barometer
The three layers of the __________________________ are crust, mantle, and core.
geosphere
Water is scarce on Earth because _________ is salt water.
97%
What separates the inner and outer planets?
Asteroid Belt
Which planet is the hottest?
Venus
____________________________ is the average weather conditions of an area over time.
Climate
Millions of years ago there existed a single continent called _______________________.
Pangea
What is an example of a Non-renewable Resource?
oil, minerals, coal
A ball of ice, dust and other particles that orbits the sun is called a?
Comet
The planet that is least dense is _________________.
Saturn