Soil
This property of soil describes how quickly water flows through it
Permeability
Tectonic plates move apart in opposite directions at this type of boundry
Divergent plate boundary
The region where meteors burn up
Mesosphere
This soil type has the smallest particle size
Clay
The thinnest zone of the earth is this layer
The crust
The region where the protective ozone layer is located
Stratosphere
This soil type has the largest particle size
sand
What is the region called on the edges of continents around the Pacific Ocean, where there is an extreme amount of seismic activity?
Ring of Fire
The layer largely responsible for the weather experienced at the Earth’s surface
Troposphere
This biome has the thickest A horizon (topsoil), very rich in humus.
Temperate deciduous forest
The earths core is primarily this material
Iron
What Layer of the atmosphere did Felix Baumgartner make his jump from?
Upper Stratosphere
This soil horizon that is often a grayish color, because minerals have leached down to rock and been sucked up above
E horizon
what are the three main categories of rocks
Igneous, Metamorphic, and Sedimentary
The layers of the atmosphere in order (Lowest to highest)
Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, (Exosphere)