Earth Science test .2

plants absorb water from the soil to live and grow...

sphere interaction

If the earth's differentiation were any different, its gravitational pull and might have been affected.

tectonic activity

The intensity of radiation from the Sun allows water to cycle between liquid and vapor, which is a dynamic process of earth called the _____.

water cycle

animals must capture energy from their environment. An example of this would be ____.

a rabbit eating grass

the rock cycle, rocks get broken apart by weathering, carried along by erosion, and eventually deposited in a body of water.

compaction and cementation into sedimentary rock, then heat and pressure into metamorphic rock

In the Hydrologic cycle, water from the ocean ________________________.

evaporates condense

In the hydrologic cycle, after water precipitates to the surface, it can return to the atmosphere by processes of _____.

evaporation and transpiration

During convection, hot material then moves to the side and . This circular pattern is called a convection current.

expands and rises cools and sinks

During the carbon cycle, carbon cycles from plants through the then recycles back into the soil by , like fungi and bacteria.

food chain decomposers

You will come to find that everything that makes life possible on Earth is _____.

interconnected

The atmosphere provides the biosphere with necessary gases to live and breathe. This is an example of how Earth's spheres are .

interdependent

Phosphorus isn't as abundant as nitrogen or carbon because it is contained in the and released with processes, which can take a long time.

lithosphere geological

The continents at one time were one supercontinent called . This supercontinent was surrounded by an ocean called .

Pangaea Panthalassa

Approximately how much energy is transferred from one step in a food chain to the next?

10%

In the tectonic cycle, new but recycled lithosphere rises to the ground at boundaries and can be subducted at boundaries.

1. divergent 2. convergent

_________ found evidence that the continents were joined together at one time.

Alfred Wegener

phosphorus cycle- phosphorus and recycle through waste products decomposition and_____.

Food Chain

Energy is the ability to do________ _________________________.

Work Thermodynamics

processes of the nitrogen and ammonia conversion that make nitrogen that is absorable by plants:

nitrogen fixation, ammonification, and nitrification

The Sun is essential to life on earth. Which of the statements is not true about the Sun's importance to life on the earth?

plate tectonics

The lithosphere floats on the asthenosphere like glass on clay. When the clay moves, the glass moves. The movement of the lithosphere is _____.

plate tectonics

In the nitrogen cycle, once a consumer gains nitrogen nutrients from animals or plants, it recycles these nutrients back to the earth by _____.

releasing waste and decomposition

Carbon is released to the atmosphere by _____.

respiration and burning of fossil fuels and wood

When energy is transformed, some is used, but most is released as unusable heat energy, according to the law of thermodynamics.

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