Studying the Earth
Meteorologists study this field of earth science.
What is the weather?
What is land?
Solid, Liquid, or Gas.
What are the three states of matter?
All minerals are naturally found in this state (except mercury).
What is solid?
A layer of gases that surrounds the Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
Movement of water between the land, atmosphere, and bodies of water.
What is the water cycle?
The process of breaking up rocks without changing their mineral makeup is known as this.
What is mechanical weathering?
This item found on a map can help the reader determine distances, landforms, and other items based on map symbols.
What is a map legend?
When the earth rotates on its axis. It rotates in this direction.
What is west to east?
Parts of the atom that are outside of the nucleus.
What are electrons?
Most minerals are found here.
What is in rocks?
The four layers of the atmosphere.
What are the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, and thermosphere?
The top of a water-soaked layer of earth forms from groundwater collecting.
What is the water table?
The process of breaking up rocks by changing the minerals in them is know as this.
What is chemical weathering?
This item on a map helps map readers determine in which direction things are located in relationship to one another.
What is a compass rose?
Parallels are the name for what imaginary lines.
What are lines of latitude?
Atoms are made of these three things.
What are protons, neutrons, and electrons?
The scale that scientists use to determine the hardness of a mineral through scratch tests.
What is Mohs' scale of hardness?
This happens to the temperature of ocean water as it increases in depth.
What is decrease?
Erosion is caused by these four things.
What are water, glaciers, wind, and gravity?
This type of map uses contour lines and intervals to indicate the varied elevations of the earth.
What is a topographic map?
Lines that run from the poles.
What are lines of longitude or meridians?
Elements are arranged on the periodic table of elements by this ascending number.
What is the atomic number?
The tendency of some minerals to break unevenly.
What is fracture?
The continuous cycle of rising warm air and falling cool air in the atmosphere.
What are wind cells?
Currents move ocean water. Currents are caused by winds and follow this general pattern.
What is the pattern of global winds?
A place where sediment is deposited where a river flows into a lake or an ocean.
What is a delta?
Earth science is the study of these four disciplines.
What is the study of the Earth's land, water, and air, and outer space?
Half of the earth.
What is a hemisphere?
An element is made of this many types of atoms.
What is 1 atom?
A mineral streak color is identified in this way.
What is a streak test?
The three major wind belts.
What are the prevailing westerlies, tradewinds, and polar easterlies?
Three categories of ocean life.
Two types of glaciers.
What are continental and alpine glaciers?
Scientists around the world use this system for measuring.
What is the metric system?
Two continents are completely located in the southern hemisphere.
What is Antarctica and Australia?
Sand, salt, and water are an example of this.
What is a mixture?
The shape of a crystal depends on this.
What is the arrangement of its atoms?
The three main types of clouds.
What are stratus, cumulus, and cirrus?
What are continental shelves, slopes, mid-ocean ridges, trenches, seamounts and plains?
Ridges of sediment left behind by glaciers.
What are moraines?