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The layer in which weather occurs.
What is the troposphere?
100
This is the outer most layer of the Earth consisting of continental and oceanic.
What is the crust?
100
To be classified as such, these have to be both solid and natural.
What is a mineral?
100
These are the three states water can be found naturally on Earth.
What are solid, liquid, and gas?
100
This is a trace gas that we release when we exhale.
What is carbon dioxide?
200
The layer containing ozone which protects us from harmful radiation from the sun.
What is the Stratosphere?
200
This is the middle layer of the geosphere.
What is the mantle?
200
These are classified according to formation.
What are rocks?
200
These are the three states water can be found on Earth as.
What is solid, liquid, and gas?
200
This is the layer of the atmosphere where shooting stars are often seen.
What is the mesosphere?
300
The outer most layer before entering outer space.
What is the Exosphere?
300
These are found where two tectonic plates meet.
What are mountains?
300
This rock is a result of weathering and erosion.
What is sedimentary?
300
This the largest reservoir of fresh water (besides the ocean).
What is ice?
300
This is the living part of the Earth.
What is the biosphere?
400
The two most abundant gasses in the atmosphere, comprising of 78% and 21%.
What are Nitrogen and Oxygen?
400
This is made of solid Iron.
What is the inner core?
400
This is formed from cooled magma.
What is igneous rock?
400
This is the percentage of salt water on Earth.
What is 97%
400
This is a trace greenhouse gas that has become a major problem with the world's consumption of beef.
What is methane?
500
The three ways in which water can leave the hydrosphere and enter the atmosphere.
What are evaporation, transpiration, and respiration?
500
This is the layer of the Earth that is liquid.
What is the outer core?
500
This is a rock that has undergone tremendous heat and pressure and has chemically changed.
What is metamorphic?
500
These are the three main components of the hydro-logical cycle.
What are precipitation, condensation, and evaporation?
500
Water can return to the biosphere during this process.
What is precipitation?