LOOP-Y LOGIC
This type of feedback mechanism works like a thermostat, helping to maintain stability by reversing or reducing changes in a system.
What is negative feedback mechanism?
This theory states that Earth's features formed through slow, steady processes over millions of years, like erosion carving the Grand Canyon.
What is gradualism?
This layer of Earth is solid despite extremely high temperatures because the intense pressure prevents the iron and nickel from melting.
What is the inner core?
This term describes the variety of living organisms on Earth or in an ecosystem.
What is biodiversity?
This NBA legend wore number 23 for the Chicago Bulls and led them to six championships in the 1990s, earning the nickname "His Airness."
Who is Michael Jordan?
This fundamental principle allows scientists to study current interactions between the geosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere to understand how ancient cycles, feedback mechanisms, and gradual processes shaped Earth's history, though it must account for occasional catastrophic threshold effects that dramatically altered the planet's systems.
What is uniformitarianism?
This type of feedback mechanism amplifies or increases changes, often leading to rapid growth or dramatic shifts in a system.
What is positive feedback mechanism?
This theory explains Earth's features through sudden, dramatic events like massive volcanic eruptions or meteorite impacts.
What is catastrophism?
This 100-km thick, cool, rigid outer part of Earth includes the crust and uppermost mantle and is broken into moving pieces.
What is the lithosphere?
This complex community of individual organisms interacts with each other and with their physical environment, functioning as an ecological unit in nature.
What is an ecosystem?
This quarterback has won seven Super Bowl titles, more than any other player, including six with the New England Patriots and one with Tampa Bay.
Who is Tom Brady?
When one thing goes up and causes another thing to go down, this creates this type of feedback loop.
What is negative feedback?
When the ground suddenly shakes and buildings collapse in seconds due to movement along fault lines, this demonstrates rapid geological change.
What is an earthquake?
This liquid layer of Earth, composed of iron and nickel, generates Earth's magnetic field through its motion and convection currents.
What is the outer core?
This is a combination of interacting parts that form a complex whole.
What is a system?
In this sport, a perfect game means no hits, no walks, and no errors, with only 23 achieved.
What is baseball?
If a decrease in pressure is correlated with a decrease in temperature, this would be an example of this type of feedback mechanism.
What is positive feedback mechanism?
This process of rocks slowly breaking down due to wind, water, and temperature changes over thousands of years creates soil and changes landscapes gradually.
What is weathering?
These seven major and eight smaller segments of the lithosphere float on hot, plastic mantle rock and move horizontally relative to each other.
What are tectonic plates?
This subsurface water is contained in the soil and bedrock of the upper few kilometers of the geosphere, comprising about 0.63 percent of all water in the hydrosphere.
What is groundwater?
This soccer tournament held every four years is the most watched sporting event in the world, with over 3 billion viewers.
What is the FIFA World Cup?
This term describes when a system reaches a balanced, stable state where things aren't changing much over time.
What is equilibrium?
Most modern geologists believe Earth's history involves both slow processes and sudden events, supporting this combined approach.
What is uniformitarianism?
Just as your circulatory system transports nutrients from digested food to nourish your cells, this interaction between Earth's living and rock layers moves essential minerals from weathered rocks through soil to support plant growth and ecosystem health.
What is the interaction between the biosphere and geosphere (or nutrient cycling between biosphere and geosphere)?
This sequential process or phenomenon returns to its beginning and then repeats itself over and over.
What is a cycle?
This basketball term describes when a player records double digits in three of five statistical categories in a single game.
What is a triple-double?