Geosphere
LATITUDE lines measure
A. North to South
B. East to West
A. North to South
This step in the water cycle involves water falling from the atmosphere back to the ground in the form of rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
Precipitation
Name a greenhouse gas
CO2, methane, water vapor
This sphere contains all living things, including plants and animals
biosphere
a section of the planet that contains either air, water, rock, or life
sphere
This type of plate boundary occurs when two plates move away from each other
Divergent Boundary
This process forms clouds
condensation
This gas makes up the majority of our atmosphere (troposphere)
nitrogen
This is the process that plants use to take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere
photosynthesis
the layer of gases suspended above the crust (air)
atmosphere
What type of geologic feature is formed at convergent boundaries?
Mountains, Volcanoes
Name BOTH ways water can re-enter the atmosphere
evaporation and transpiration
How do greenhouse gases contribute to global warming?
Trap heat
When plants and animals die and decompose, they eventually become _________________ after being under lots of pressure for long periods of time.
Fossil fuels
energy found underground obtained from dead / decaying matter
fossil fuels
List the four layers of the geosphere in order of outer most to inner most
crust, mantle, outer core, inner core
What is one way we can speed up evaporation?
heat, spread out water, wind
As the layers of the atmosphere get farther from earth's surface, the density (inc/dec/stays the same)
Decreases
This is the word for the reaction involving burning fossil fuels
combustion
The different sections of the Earth’s crust that float on top of the mantle
plate tectonics
Name one piece of evidence that the continents have moved from their current position (continental drift)
fossils, puzzle pieces, rock types, mountain structures
Name one consequence of acid rain
damage to infrastructure, plants and animals die, health impacts, damage to soil
Incoming radiation from the sun can do one of three things when it reaches the Earth. Name one.
Absorbed, reflected, reabsorbed (trapped by greenhouse gases)
The process by which carbon can move from the ocean to the atmosphere, or in the opposite direction as well!
diffusion
Energy that we use faster than we can obtain (“limited”)
Nonrenewable