Earth's Layers
Atmosphere
Weather
Rock Cycle
Water Cycle
Identify this process!
100
The thinnest layer of the earth
What is the crust?
100
The layer that we live in
What is the troposphere?
100
The force that is responsible for pulling the atmosphere and water toward the earth
What is gravity?
100
Rock that forms from other rocks combined with heat and pressure
What is metamorphic?
100
The other name for the water cycle
What is the hydrologic cycle?
100
Evaporation
200
The slabs of rock that float on the mantle
What are tectonic plates?
200
Mountains reach up to this layer
What is the troposphere?
200
The three factors that affect weather
What are temperature, pressure, and humidity?
200
Small particles of sand, dust, rock, etc.
What are sediments?
200
Turning from a liquid to a gas
What is evaporation?
200
What is igneous?
300
The reason that the inner core is solid
What is gravity and/or pressure?
300
The special gas that is found in the stratosphere
What is ozone?
300
Boyle's Law relates these two factors
What are pressure and density?
300
The three types of rocks
Igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic
300
The process responsible for making clouds
What is condensation?
300
What is continental drift?
400
The crust combined with the upper part of the mantle
What is the lithosphere?
400
The layer that the Northern Lights (aurora borealis) occur in
What is the thermosphere (ionosphere)?
400
The cause of wind
What is the uneven heating of the earth's surface?
400
The process of forming sedimentary rocks
What is lithification?
400
Water going into the ground
What is percolation (infiltration)?
400
What are precipitation and surface runoff?
500
The layer that is made of the upper part of the mantle
What is the asthenosphere?
500
All the layers of the atmosphere
What are the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere?
500
The law that relates pressure and temperature
What is Gay-Lussac's Law?
500
Pumice and Obsidian are examples of this type of rock
What is igneous?
500
All seven steps of the hydrologic cycle
What are evaporation, condensation, precipitation, surface runoff, percolation (infiltration), groundwater, and transpiration?
500
What is a convergent boundary?