Geosphere
The outermost layer of the Earth.
What is the Crust?
An example of something that can cause rock to be weathered.
What is wind, ice, plants, acid, moss, water, animals, etc?
This is how old the universe is thought to be.
13 to 14 billion years old.
The smallest level of ecological organization. A single living thing.
What is an organism?
A chain of volcanoes and plate boundaries that circles the pacific ocean.
What is the Ring of Fire?
Name the three types of plate boundaries and describe each.
What are convergent, divergent, and transform (Diagram Required)
Rocks being broken down into smaller pieces by physical or chemical means.
What is weathering?
This feature of Earth leads to seasonality throughout the year.
What is the tilt of the planet?
Things that are not living and were never alive are considered this.
What is abiotic?
The type of succession that begins from bare rock, typically after a volcanic eruption or glacial scrape.
What is primary succession?
The scientist that proposed the theory of Continental Drift.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
Particles that have been weathered being moved to another location by wind, water, etc.
What is erosion?
What is rotation?
The level of organization that includes all living things and their habitats on Earth.
What is the biosphere?
A supercontinent that broke apart 300 million years ago.
What was Pangaea?
This is the plate boundary that usually has the most earthquakes.
What is a transform boundary?
Organic material on the surface of soil will become this substance as it decays.
What is humus?
Correctly name the order of the planets, starting from the Sun, moving outwards.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
A species interaction that benefits both parties involved
What is a mutualism?
This type of crust is thinner and more dense.
What is oceanic crust?
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Eroded sediment eventually stops moving and settles in this process.
What is deposition?
This process describes how the axis tilt of Earth changes direction over long stretches of time, changing what start "points north"
A relationship between two different species.
What is symbiosis?
The mid-Atlantic ridge is an example of this type of plate boundary.
What is a divergent boundary?