Earth Science Exam One

-sphere

100

This is the study of Earth's structure, components, composition, and processes

Geosphere

200

This is the total amount of water on the planet, liquid solid and gas and its distribution

Hydrosphere

300

This sphere is the layer surrounding Earth creating a gaseous envelope of breathable air and protection

What is atmosphere

400

This is the biological system interactin with all living things and their relationship with other species

Biosphere

500

There is an oil spill in the gulf of mexico and these two spheres are most affected

Biosphere, Hydrosphere

Layer of the Earth

100

This is the layer right above the asthenosphere in the mantle on planet earth and helps drive the plate tectonics?

Lithosphere

200

This is the name for the smallest layer of the earth in which humans reside

Crust

300

This is the layer of the Earth with the thickest section, containing the mesosphere, asthenosphere, and lithosphere

Mantle

400

This layer of the earth is incredibly dense and made out of iron, giving Earth this useful property in navigation an gravitiation

Magnetism

500

These are the two types of outer crust that show that the theory of seafloor spreading can be supported

Continental crust and oceanic crust

Plate Tectonics

100

These are the three types of plate tectonic boundaries that can be found

Converging, Diverging, Transforming

200

This type of plate tectonic movement will happen at a converging plate boundary, when on e tectonic plat eslides unuder another one

Subduction

300

This plate boundary can not exprience a volcanic erruption with an earth quake becuase there are no magma chambers.

Transform Boundary

400

Is the theory that the ocean floor is splitting apart beneath the ocean surface but is subducting somewhere else so that the planet remains around the same size

Mid Ocean Ridge. 

500

Some converging plate boundaries do not subduct the rock underneath it to create a rift valley. Instead, convergent plates will create this land form.

What is a mountian range?

Fun Facts

100

This is the most commonly used name for the super continent before the contients existed the way we see them today.

Pangea

200

This is the name of the transform fault line in california near las angeles 

San Andres Fault

300

This is the latin root for the "study of" and found in words such as biology, hydrology, and meterology

-ology

400

This brand of soap has been donating to the clean up effort after deep water horizon

Dawn Dish Soap

500

This type of plate boundary includes no creation of new land and contains these three faults. 

Transform Boundary

Normal, reverse, strike slip

Vocabulary

100

This is the famous 2015 encyclical written by Pope Francis to call all humans to be good stewards of the planet

Laudato Si

200

These are also known as waves of energy that travel thoruh Earth's layers that drive the motion for the plate tectonics. They also let scientists study the inner Earth

Seismic Waves

300

This crust is created at the midocean ridege and is much thinner and newer than the other type of crust. 

Oceanic Crust

400

This happens the heat is transfered into a fluid and hot fuid rises and the cold fluid sinks. This is also known as the driving force for the plate tectonics

Convection

500

This is the world famous name for the widely accepted theory of the supercontinent.

Pangea