Geological Time
This term describes hundreds of millions of years in Earth's history
What is a Era?
This part of the planet is most likely made of solid iron and nickel
What is the core?
This line is 0* latitude
What is the equator?
This map symbol is used to show the distance between two points.
What is a scale?
These are three most abundant gasses found in Earth's atmosphere.
What is nitrogen, oxygen, and argon.
This time period is known as the "Age of Reptiles"
What is the Mesozoic Era?
This term describes the force of attraction between all matter in the universe
What is gravity?
These terms are used to break down degrees of longitude and latitude
What is minutes and seconds?
This map symbol shows where north is
What is a compass rose?
This layer is responsible for protecting living things from the sun's radiation.
What is the ozone layer?
This period of time accounts for about 88% of Earth's history
What is Precambrian time?
This molecule is the unique things about Earth
What is water?
This imaginary line divides the Earth into the Eastern and Western hemispheres
What is the Prime Meridian?
This term describes the shape and features of a land.
What is topography?
This pollution is made from trapped burned fossil fuels. T
What is smog?
This "Super Continent" broke apart in Cenozoic Era
What is the Pangea?
This sphere of Earth covers all solid rock
What is the geosphere?
These lines run from the north pole to the south pole
What is meridans?
**DOUBLE JEPORADY!!!**
This term is used to describe the elevation distance between two lines on a topographic map.
This will decrease as you increase in altitude due to oxygen molecules not being as close together
What is atmospheric pressure?
This term describes billions of years in Earth's history
What is an Eon?
These are Earth's two axis points
What is the north and south pole?
This symbol is used to distinguish 1/60 of a degree of longitude or latitude
What is '
These lines on a topographic map are marked with hachure (ticked) lines. This would indicate a hole or pit.
What is a depression?
This layer of the atmosphere is where we live and breath
What is the troposphere?