What are the crust, mantle, and core?
Can you name a detail about each layer?
100
Name the 4 spheres of the Earth
What is Geosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere
Can you describe each?
100
These are the three main parts of the water cycle.
What are evaporation, condensation, and precipitation?
What are the differences between each of these three parts?
100
These are the two most common gases in the atmosphere
What are Nitrogen (78%) and Oxygen (21%)
100
This is how air pressure change as you move away from Earth
What is air pressure decreases?
What causes the air pressure to change?
200
Name the 2 elements the core is made of
What is iron and nickel
What is different about the inner and outer core?
200
These are the four types of waves Earthquakes produce
What are Primary Waves, Secondary Waves, Love Waves, and Rayleigh Waves
How does each type of wave move (direction and can it move through solids/liquids)
200
These are the five primary oceans
Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic
Can you locate these on a map?
200
These are the three types of plate tectonics.
Convergent
Divergent
Transform
Can you describe what happens at each?
200
Name the layers of the atmosphere
What are trophosphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere
How does the temperature change in each level? What causes temperature to increase in certain layers?
300
Name three geological activities that can occur along plate boundaries
What are Earthquakes, Mountains/Rifts, Volcanoes
300
This is how you can determine the epicenter of an earthquake.
What is know the time between P and S waves at three different seismograph locations, then use the time to determine the distance from the seismograph that the earthquake occurred, and determine where the distances from the three locations overlap (triangulation)
300
This is the concentration of salts in the water
What is salinity
What types of salt is most common in the ocean?
What factors impact the oceans' salinity?
300
These are the types of currents found in the ocean.
Surface Current and Deep Current
What causes each of these types of currents?
300
Describe three ways that energy is transferred.
Conduction
Convection
Radiation
Can you give an example of each?
400
Name the 5 physical layers of the earth
What is lithosphere, asthenosphere, mesosphere, outer core, inner core
Can you name a detail about each layer?
400
What does the Richter scale measure?
What is magnitude of an earthquake
About how much stronger is a level 4 earthquake than an level 3 earthquake?
400
The tributaries, rivers, and all of the land that collects water that drains into these water ways.
What is a watershed
400
This is the name for a lock layer that stores and collects underground water.
What is an aquifer
400
This is the process in which gases in the atmosphere trap heat near the Earth.
What is the greenhouse effect?
Why is the greenhouse effect important for life on earth?
What are some of the greenhouse gases?
500
What layer does the tectonic plates move on?
What is asthenosphere
500
These are the three main types of volcanoes.
What are cinder cone, stratovolcano, and shield volcano
How do you tell these different types of volcanoes apart?
500
These are the three temperature zones in the ocean
What are the surface zone, thermocline, and deep zone
In which of these zones does the temperature change most drastically?
500
This is how the tectonic plates move
Convection currents
Can you explain how the convection currents work to move the plates?
500
Why is Earth a closed system?
What is because the only thing that enters in significant amounts is energy from the sun, and the only thing that leaves in significant amounts is heat
How does this system compare to the insulated and open systems?