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Cycles
Fossil Fuels
Geology
Cosmos
Diagrams
100
Nutrients move in cycles through living organisms, rocks, soils, water and chemical compounds
What is biogeochemical cycles
100
composed of hydrogen and carbon molecules
What are hydrocarbons
100
Allows movement of the crust
What is crustal plates (or tectonic plates)
100
Created by a collision of a large body with Earth forming space debris
What is the moon
100
Recycles nutrients
What are decomposers
200
Substance needed for living things to grow
What is a nutrient
200
An example of things made from this substance would be petroleum jelly
What is crude oil
200
Can be caused by hot spots in breaks of the earth's crust
What is a volcano
200
Makes a planet habitable
What is the atmosphere
200
The crusts, cores, mantle and lithosphere
What is the earth's structure
300
Requires carbon dioxide
What is the carbon cycle
300
There are several forms
What is coal
300
Occurs along boundaries of tectonic plates
What is an earthquake
300
Is used to measure distances in space based on speed of light
What is a light year
300
subduction of 2 tectonic plates
What is formation of a volcano
400
Collects, cleans and redistributes water
What is the hydrologic cycle
400
Makes it hard to breath and causes stunted plant growth
What is air pollution
400
The study of earth's atmosphere
What is meteorology
400
Caused by interactions between the sun, moon, and earth
What are the phases of the moon
400
Intertidal, oceanic, photic, euphotic, among others
What are the ocean zones
500
The breaking up of rock by wind and rain
What is weathering
500
sulfuric acid and nitric acid effect on the water cycle
What is acid rain
500
cause by differences in temperature and density.
What are currents
500
Created by a collision of a large body with Earth and a change of axis
What are the seasons
500
Two armed spiral
What is the Milky Way Galaxy