Carbon
Where most of a tree's mass comes from.
What is Carbon Dioxide
Plate Tectonics can be found/occur on this layer of Earth
What is the Lithosphere/Geosphere
The 2 Layers of Earth where molten magma flows.
Outer Core & the Asthenosphere
A preserved organism, usually embedded in rock layers.
What is a Fossil?
A sample containing 80g undergoes 1 half life. How much of the sample is left.
What is 40g?
This organism eats plants and meat
What is an Omnivore?
This is the explosion and death of a massive Star
What is a Supernova
The process producers use to capture solar energy.
What is Photosynthesis?
The land feature that is created when two oceanic plates are spreading apart.
What is a Mid-Ocean Ridge
The sphere containing Earth's water
What is hydrosphere?
A chart showing different time periods of Earth, usually separated by different forms of life evolving.
What is Geologic Time Scale?
The approach to date things based on estimates and approximations
What is Relative Dating?
The term that describes an abundance of different species and amounts of life in a Biome
What is Biodiversity?
This is the scientific name of a "Moon"
What is a Natural Satellite?
30% of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere ends up here.
What is the ocean.
When a converging plate is forced underneath another due to its density
What is Subduction
This is created by transform boundaries sliding past/next to each other.
What is a Fault?
This time period is the largest scale
What is an Eon
Using half-life's to determine the exact age of a rock/fossil
What is Absolute Dating
This organism depends on other living things to obtain its food/nutrients
What is a Heterotroph?
The Sun is this far away
93,000,000 Miles or 1 AU
This rock is made from the buildup of the calcium carbonate shells at the bottom of the ocean.
What is chalk (or limestone)?
Movement of Magma and material in the mantle are caused by this
What are Convection Currents?
This sphere contains all the ice on Earth
What is the Cryosphere?
The relative order of material/rocks due to stacking and layering over time
What is Superposition
In a half-life, the name of what the original element is and what it decays into
What is the Parent and Daughter Isotope?
What is Eutrophication ?
The study of the the light emitted and observed from stars, giving a specific "fingerprint" of light
What is Spectroscopy
Excess carbon dioxide in the ocean makes it difficult for organisms to build their shells because of this process.
What is Ocean Acidification?
These materials make up Oceanic and Contental Crust
What is Basalt & Granite
What is the Magnetic Field
This was the First Eon of Earth - a hellish, magma filled landscape.
What is the Hadean Eon
A rock has a half life of 5 years. After 10 years, the sample is at 50g. What was the sample starting amount?
What is 200g
The name of the natural cycle of elements like Carbon, Nitrogen, Phosphorus
What is a Biogeochemical Cycle?
Two out of the three pieces of Evidence for the Big Bang Theory
What is Redshift/Doppler, Abundance of Light Elements, and Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation