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Earth Systems
100

What are the THREE types of plate boundaries?

Convergent, divergent, transform

100

What is the outermost layer of the Earth called?

Crust

100

Approximately what percentage of water is found in the oceans?

97%

100

What process moves carbon between the atmosphere and the geosphere?

Carbon cycle

200

What is the name of the most common landform caused by a transform plate boundary?

A fault line

200

Which layer is made of semi-solid rock that moves slowly?

Asthenosphere

200

What is an area of land where water naturally collects and filters through plants and soil called?

Wetland

200

What Earth system is directly affected by earthquakes?

Geosphere

300

What type of seismic wave travels the fastest?

P-waves

300

List the four main layers of the Earth from innermost to outermost. 

Inner core, outer core, mantle, crust

300

What are the three main forces that create ocean tides?

Sun gravity, moon gravity, Earth rotation

300

Which two systems interact during a hurricane?

Atmosphere, Hydrosphere

400

What is the point inside the Earth where an earthquake initiates?

Focus

400

As you increase the depth, what happens to the temperature and pressure inside the earth?

They both increase. 

400

What is the largest freshwater resource on Earth?

Groundwater

400

What is one way humans affect the hydrosphere?

Overfishing, polluting, etc

500

What process in the mantle causes the movement of tectonic plates?

Convection currents

500

What is responsible for Earth's magnetic field?

The outer core

500

What are the two main elements found in ocean water?

Sodium and chlorine

500

Forest fires impact what spheres?

Geosphere, atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere