What in the world?
All the water on Earth makes up
What is the hydrosphere?
The driving force behind most erosion is ______________.
What is gravity?
_______ are small particles of rocks that form when rock breaks down.
What are sediments?
This atmospheric layer contains most of Earth’s weather
What is the troposphere?
A mineral must have a definite
What is a chemical composition?
The layer of gases that surround the Earth are ___________________.
What is the atmosphere?
The breaking down of rock at or near Earth's surface is called _________________.
What is weathering?
A sedimentary rock made from broken rock fragments
What is Clastic?
This gas makes up 75% of the atmosphere?
What is Nitrogen?
A river on a topographic map is shown by contour lines that ___________.
What is a V-shape pointing downhill?
All of the living things or organisms on Earth are ______________.
What is the biosphere?
Chemical weathering is most rapid in this climate
What is warm and wet?
A rock that formed from lava cooling quickly
What is extrusive igneous?
Clouds that form in thin, wispy layers high in the atmosphere
What is cirrus?
A map has a scale of 1:50,000.
A distance on the map reads 1.5 units. In real life that distance is _________ units.
What is 75,000?
All of the solid, non-living parts of Earth are _____________.
What is the geosphere?
The moving of weathered rock is _______________.
What is erosion?
The process that creates igneous rock from lava or magma is _______________________.
What is cooling and hardening?
Day-to-day atmospheric conditions
What weather?
A mineral with a hardness of 6 cannot scratch this material.
What is a steel nail?
The systems that interact when an earthquake destroys habitats
What is geosphere and biosphere?
_______ is when the wind/water/glacier drops the material they are eroding.
What is deposition?
Rocks that form from evaporation of mineral-rich water
Chemical sedimentary
Atmospheric pressure is highest in this layer
What is the troposphere?
A soil that contains 60% silt, 30% clay, and 10% sand.
What is silty clay loam?