sience test

Plants absorb water from the soil to live and grow. This is an example of of the biosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere.

sphere interaction

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

tectonic activity

Which list of factors best supports the concept that they are "just right" for the planet Earth to support life?

temperature, gravity, atmosphere, and water

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

Energy is the ability to do . The study of energy and its changing forms is called .

work thermodynamics

Earth is the only planet known to have _____.

a biosphere x3

Mr. Goldsmith suggested that animals must capture energy from their environment. An example of this would be _____.

a rabbit eating grass

Both of these studies have to do with the sky. However, focuses on space and structures within it, like stars and meteoroids, and focuses on weather elements, like wind currents and cold fronts.

astronomy meteorology

Earth science encompasses four main science disciplines. They are _____.

astronomy, meteorology, oceanography, and geology

The four main spheres of Earth are the _____.

atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere

You can follow the flow of energy in an ecosystem by following its food or .

chain web

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

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

The earth's interior heat and pressure drive a process of heat transfer in the mantle called _____.

convection

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

divergent convergent

In the hydrologic cycle, water from the ocean into the atmosphere where it can and change back into tiny water droplets.

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

The _____ law of thermodynamics states that energy can't be created or destroyed. Two natural sources of energy on Earth are the _____.

first, Sun and core of Earth

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

food chain decomposers

In the phosphorus cycle, phosphorus can recycle through waste products, decomposition, and of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

food chains

Mr. Hitch taught us about sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rocks. He described how they were formed, what they contain, and showed us samples of each. He is a good _____.

geologist

The size of the earth is just right. If it were any bigger, its would be greater, which could result in an atmosphere different than the oxygen-rich atmosphere we have today.

gravitational pull x differentiation

The spheres that only Earth has are a _____.

hydrosphere and biosphere

In the rock cycle, rocks can change into three different forms. These are _____.

igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic

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

Starting from the center of the earth, number its layers in the correct order.

5 2 3 1 4

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

10%

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

Alfred Wegener

Choose the pieces of evidence that supported the existence of Pangaea and continental drift theory.

Fossilized plants and animals of the same species found on separate continents. Geological features, such as mountain ranges, that align on matching coasts of different continents.

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

Pangaea Panthalassa

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?

The Sun supports the processes of plate tectonics. x2

Earth's geochemical and biogeochemical cycles are important because they tend to maintain a balance of Earth's materials.

True

On Earth, old matter is recycled into new matter.

True

Which of the following are processes of nitrogen and ammonia conversion that make nitrogen absorbable by plants?

nitrogen fixation, ammonification, and nitrification

I want to learn about the deep blue oceans. How do their currents move? What lies on the seafloor? How does the marine life live? I want to study _____.

oceanography

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.

second