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What is the outer layer of the earth called?
The crust
What is solar wind?
What is so useful about water?
It dissolves and transports nutrients
How much space does the earths mantle take up?
84% of the earths volume
What are the two types of geology?
Operational and Historical
What is the lithosphere?
A combination of the upper mantle and the crush
What are the 3 main layers of the earth?
Crust, mantle, core
What is the crust?
A solid, relatively low-density rock
What is the outer layer of the earth made of?
Tectonic plates
What is the layer that extends from the bottom of the lithosphere?
the asthenosphere
What are the 2 parts of the core and how thick are each of them?
Outer and inner core;
Outer - 1400 mi thick
Inner - 1500 mi thick
At which degree is earths angle at from the vertical?
23 1/2 degrees
What is a natural resource?
Any raw material that we use from our environment
What are the two resources? And their definitions?
Renewable and nonrenewable
Renewable - unlimited supply or easily replenishedNonrenewable - cant be replenished
What feature of water helps to warm cool areas of the earth and cool warm areas?
What are two things that the earths atmosphere can save the earth from?
Meteors and dangerous wavelengths from the sun
What is the effort to oversee and control the use of natural resources?
Resource management
What is uniformitarianism and what is its opposite?
Uniformitarianism is the belief that all earth-forming processes are natural. It's opposite is catastrophism.
What is the moho?
A boundary between the crust and mantle
What is it called to use resources at a rate that allows them to be replenished?
Maintaining a sustainable yield