Spheres of the Earth
This sphere includes rocks, minerals, and soils?
What is the geopshere?
In which sphere does phosphorus not exist?
What is the atmosphere?
The ___________ is the thinnest layer of the geosphere?
What is the crust?
Boundary where plates come together?
What is a convergent boundary?
What is the force that pulls rock apart?
What is tension?
The majority of this sphere is nitrogen gas, oxygen gas and other trace gases?
What is the atmosphere?
What is one method of adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere?
What is burning fossil fuels?
Is a solid dense layer of iron and nickel?
What is the inner core?
Boundary where plates move away from each other?
What is a divergent boundary?
As one plate is subducted under another plate this type of land formation can form?
What is a volcano?
This Earth system includes rivers, lakes, and oceans?
What is the hydropshere?
Carbon dioxide is this type of matter?
What is a gas or greenhouse gas?
This layer is made up of liquid hot metal that flows?
What is the inner core?
Fossils, geological evidence and ___________________are used as evidence for the theory of plate tectonics.
Heat in the earth causes liquid rock to flow creating this type of current?
What is a convection current?
This sphere includes plants, animals, and other living things?
What is the biosphere?
Evaporation, condensation, and precipitation are all parts of what cycle?
What is the water cycle?
The upper part of this layer is the asthenosphere and lithosphere?
What is the mantle?
Boundary where plates slide past each other?
What is a transform boundary?
This type of force causes mountains to form?
What are compression forces?
Plants removing carbon dioxide from the air is an interaction between what two spheres?
What is the atmosphere and biosphere?
Carbon is removed from the biosphere by the ocean absorbing it and ______________
What is photosynthesis?
The densest part of the planet is in the center because of what force?
What is gravity?
What forms along divergent plate boundaries?
Earthquakes at a transform boundary are a result of what force?
What is shearing?