Vocab
This is when two air masses meet
What is a front?
The main gas that makes up the "blanket" that traps heat from the sun.
What is Carbon Dioxide?
1. What are convection currents?
1. Convection currents are big
circles of moving gasses or
liquids
This is the type of eclipse formed when the moon moves between the sun and the Earth.
What is a solar eclipse?
The outer layer, we walk on it.
What is the crust?
Oil, coal, and gas are examples of ....
What are "fossil fuels"
Doing this action releases Carbon Dioxide.
What is burning fossil fuels?
What is the role of convection
currents in the Earth’s mantle?
Convection currents cause:
● hot magma to rise
● then cool and sink
● making Earth’s tectonic
plates move and create
mountains, earthquakes,etc.
This is the level of the food chain that makes all of its own food.
What is a producer?
The two solid layers of the Earth
What is the Crust and the inner core
This is when rocks pile up
What is deposition?
At least two effects of global warming and climate change.
What is Sea Level Rise, Extreme Weather, and Mass Extinctions
● Erosion moves pieces of rock away.
This is Newton's first law.
What is, an object in motion will stay in motion unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.
The layer made of liquid magma (it's liquid so convection happens here)
What is the mantle?
This organelle is the powerhouse of the cell - it makes ENERGY!
What is the mitochondria?
This is what the carbon dioxide "blanket" does with heat from the sun.
What is traps/ traps heat?
What type of plate boundary makes a mountain?
What is a convergent?
This organelle traps sunlight and creates food energy for the plant cell.
What is the chloroplast?
The layer made of liquid iron (it's liquid so convection occurs here)
What is the outer core?
This is when heat is transferred between liquids/gasses.
What is convection?
Oops! An extra weather question snuck in! High pressure and Low Pressure areas create this kind of weather (Write BOTH)
What is
High - Clear skies and Sunshine
Low - Rain and storms
What type of plate boundary makes a VOLCANO?
What is subduction?
This organelle stores important substances for the cell.
What is a vacuole?
The layer that makes a magnetic field.