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This celestial object is the primary energy source in processes on and above the Earth's surface.
What is the sun?
Volcanoes with felsic magma tend to have this type of eruption.
What is an explosive eruption?
This property of water refers to its affinity for sticking together.
What is cohesion?
This process involves evapotranspiration, condensation, precipitation, and collection.
What is the water cycle?
This climatic phenomenon occurs when the trade winds in the Pacific slow down or reverse.
What is El Niño?
This area of the Earth receives the most solar radiation.
What are the equatoral regions?
This process involves gravity working on older, denser plate material.
What is slab pull?
Felsic magma has a high content of this element.
What is silicon?
This current is driven by differences in the salinity, density, and temperature of ocean water.
What is thermohaline circulation?
These creatures can sing, dance, and surf, but are at risk of extinction if Antarctic sea ice continues at record low levels.
What are Emperor Penguins?
This term refers to heat left over from the formation of the Earth.
What is primordial heat?
Volcanoes that form over thermal plumes typically have this shape.
What is a shield?
Along with oxygen, this carbohydrate is one of the products of photosynthesis.
What is glucose?
This moon of Jupiter experiences icy tectonic activity.
What is Europa?
This vulnerable mountain region is home to some of the continent's only glacial landforms.
What are the Australian Alps?
Earthquakes are caused when this type of energy builds up between stuck tectonic plates and is suddenly released.
What is elastic potential energy?
This part of the mantle is plastic, meaning it can flow.
What is the asthenosphere?
This chemical, found in plants, is key to the photosynthesis reaction.
What is chlorophyll?
This type of sea ice is connected to the ice shelf.
What is fast ice?
This organisation provides reports about climate change for policymakers around the world.
What is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change?
More reflective surfaces have this property, which helps reduce the amount of solar radiation that enters the Earth's energy budget.
What is albedo?
Eyjafjallajökull is an example of this type of eruption.
What is a phreatomagmatic eruption?
These types of bonds exist between water molecules.
What are hydrogen bonds?
Its ability to dissolve more substances than anything else on Earth has earned water this nickname.
What is the universal solvent?
This glacier in West Antarctica could collapse in the next century, leading to half a metre a sea level rise.
What is Thwaites Glacier?