Climate Change
The natural process of trapping heat within the atmosphere.
What is The Greenhouse Effect?
The geological process that causes the break-down of rocks and minerals into smaller pieces
What is weathering?
Something which is the combination of two or more minerals.
What is a rock?
The place where most of the water is found on Earth.
What is the ocean?
The continents move on large pieces of the Earth’s crust called this.
What are tectonic plates?
The types of gasses which increase the trapping of heat in the atmosphere.
What are greenhouse gasses?
The movement of rocks and minerals from one place to another
What is erosion?
A type of rock that comes from magma and volcanoes.
What are Igneous rocks?
The step in the water cycle where water turns from liquid into gas.
What is evaporation?
The age of the Earth.
What is 4.5 billion years old?
The category of carbonic materials which are burned to release CO2 in the atmosphere.
What are fossil fuels?
A category of weathering that does NOT involve changing the chemical composition of rocks.
What is physical/mechanical weathering?
A type of rock that forms from the compaction of sediments over time.
What are sedimentary rocks?
The name of the process that refers to the increase of carbonic acid in the ocean.
What is ocean acidification?
The center of the Earth, primarily made of Iron and Nickel.
What is the core of the Earth?
A resource which can only be used once and does not regenerate
What is a non-renewable resource?
A category of weathering that more likely occurs in climates with higher temperatures and precipitation
What is chemical weathering?
The process by which rocks change between their various types over long periods of time.
What is the rock cycle?
Air moves from where to where.
What is from high to low pressure (cold to hot)?
These two powerful natural hazards mostly occur on the boundaries of tectonic plates.
What are earthquakes and volcanoes?
Almost all of the energy on planet Earth originated from this
What is the sun?
The combination of a gas like Carbon Dioxide (CO2) or Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) with water creates this which causes chemical weathering to rocks.
What is acid rain?
The two things required for the formation of Metamorphic rocks.
What are heat and pressure?
The name of an underground store of water.
What is an aquifer?
This type of boundary between two tectonic plates when they are moving away from each other.
What is a divergent boundary?