The Atmosphere
The lowest layer of the atmosphere where weather takes place, any living thing on earth lives, and where low clouds form.
What is the troposphere?
An inorganic compound with a defined chemical composition. Atoms are arranged in a structural pattern.
What is a crystal?
The most recent supercontinent where all landmasses were connected. It began to separate over 200 million years ago, leaving us with our modern continents.
What is Pangea?
Hydrosphere encapsulates everything that is made of this liquid.
What is water?
A source of fuel that may take an excess amount of time to form as it relies on biological matter to decompose and fossilize. This includes oil and coal among other fuels.
What are fossil fuels?
The average, or year-round weather in a local area. This is not the conditions of a single day rather a generalized pattern.
What is climate?
The measurement of the hardness of a substance. This is measured by testing what may scratch the substance, and what the substance may scratch.
What is the Mohs Scale?
The mountain range that formed after the collision of the Indian and Eurasian plates. It consists of many of the tallest mountains in the world.
What are the Himalayas?
The frozen water in the hydrosphere with its own designated name to refer to this subordinate category.
What is the cryosphere?
The process by which fossils are formed. Decomposable matter is replaced with minerals gradually and is ultimately well preserved.
What is fossilization?
Wind always flows from these areas to these other areas to fill a vacuum.
What is high-to-low pressure?
A substance which may not have an organized structure but consists of only a single mineral.
What is a monomineralic rock?
A force between tectonic plates where the plates are shifting alongside each other along a rift.
What is sheer force?
This percentage refers to the amount of Earth’s surface that is submerged in water.
What is 71%? (I will accept anywhere in the range of 70% - 73% as an acceptable answer.)
The entirety of the time when the dinosaurs existed and when their dominance reined. This lasted from 252 million years ago to 66 million years ago.
What was the Mesozoic Era?
Auroras occur in this layer of the atmosphere.
What is the ionosphere?
The property by which the amount light reflected from a mineral is measured. This property refers to its shininess.
What is luster?
The powerful force in the mantle where differences in pressure creates movement along which the tectonic plates float and shift.
What are convection currents?
The evaporation of water from the pores of a plant, also known as stoma.
What is transpiration?
The longest period of the Mesozoic era in which dinosaurs like the T-Rex existed.
What was the Cretaceous Period?
The topmost layer of atmosphere where the air thins out so much it may start to be classified as space.
What is the exosphere?
The crystal with a 10 on the Mohs scale of hardness. It is the hardest naturally occurring crystal that may only be scratched by another. It is made up of only carbon atoms.
What is diamond?
The long strip of seafloor in the Atlantic Ocean from which new land forms and is pushed outwards along the divergent plates.
What is the Mid-Atlantic-Ridge?
OMG!!! You found the easiest problem! True or false: water can cause erosion. Hint: does acid rain and crashing waves affect the environment?
True
Some of the oldest fossils found with some well-preserved specimens from as early as the carboniferous period. Modern day examples include pill bugs or Roly-Polies.
What are isopods?