Amazing Atmosphere
Beautiful Biosphere
Lovely Lithosphere
Heavenly Hydrosphere
Those Darn Humans
100
The layer of the atmosphere that contains the ozone layer
Stratosphere
100
The variety of organisms in an ecosystem
Biodiversity
100
The boundary type where plates move apart
Divergent Boundary
100
The process of water traveling down through soil towards groundwater
percolation/infiltration
100
The growth pattern of a country where the age structure diagram is NARROWER at the BOTTOM than at the TOP
Decreasing/declining/shrinking/negative
200
The trapping of infrared radiation near the planet's surface by the atmosphere
The Greenouse Effect
200
The amount of energy moving from prey to predator upon consumption
10%
200
A renewable source of energy derived from the lithosphere
Geothermal Energy
200
The large convection current in the ocean that circulates global water and maintains temperature regulation
Thermohaline circulation
200
If we gotta burn fossil fuels, this is the cleanest burning one
Natural gas
300
A renewable source of energy coming from the troposphere.
Wind
300
The form of succession that starts without soil
primary succession
300
The most common boundary type in California
Transform Boundaries
300
The phenomena caused by runoff that leads to an algal bloom
Eutrophication
300
The phenomenon caused by NOx and SOx emissions that can degrade statues and change soil pH
Acid Deposition
400
The direction of deflection for a plane traveling in the southern hemisphere
Left/Counter Clockwise
400
The process of a toxin growing more present in an organism over its lifetime
Bioaccumulation
400
The type of mining that removes overburden in layers
Strip mining
400
The pattern of the strengthening and weakening of the tradewinds in the south Pacific
El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO)
400
The phenomenon where the temperature is raised by several degrees inside a city
Urban heat island
500
The two biomes found on either side of a Hadley Cell
Tropical rainforest (0 degrees)
Desert (30 degrees)
500
The reproductive strategy of a dandelion who disperse their seeds on the wind
r-selected
500
The partially decayed matter in the O Horizon
Humus
500
The chemical compound formed from the interaction between CO2 and H2O
Carbonic Acid (H2CO3)
500
Greenhouse gas emissions are primarily human-caused. This greenhouse gas gave us a big scare in the 80s as it started to break down our ozone layer.
CFCs