Unit 1

Question 1

Geosphere

Answer 1

Rocky lands (mountains, etc)

Question 2

Atmosphere

Answer 2

Gases.

Question 3

Hydrosphere

Answer 3

Water

Question 4

Biosphere

Answer 4

All living things.

Question 5

(Most Shallow Layer) → → → (Deepest Layer)

Answer 5

Crust, mantle, outer core, inner core

Question 6

Crust

Answer 6

Rocky, thin layer.

Question 7

Mantle

Answer 7

largest layer, made of rock/ice.

Question 8

Lithosphere

Answer 8

Crust and upper mantle.

Question 9

Asthenosphere

Answer 9

Upper layer of the earth’s mantle, below the lithosphere.

Question 10

Outer Core

Question 11

Inner Core

Question 12

Erosion

Question 13

What is the Earth’s magnetic field caused by?

Answer 13

Outer core.

Question 14

The supercontinent Alfred Wegner proposed?

Question 15

Name the 4 pieces of evidence that support theory of continental drift

Question 16

What is the oldest and youngest piece of land on a mid ocean ridge?

Question 17

The theory of plate tectonics claims that…

Question 18

Define hotspot

Question 19

Describe the movement of convergent boundaries

Question 20

What is the resulting formations of convergent plate boundaries?

Question 21

Describe the movement of divergent boundaries

Question 22

What is the resulting formations of divergent plate boundaries?

Question 23

Describe the movement of transform boundaries

Question 24

What are the resulting formations of transform plate boundaries?

Question 25

What are the results of a volcanic eruption?

Question 26

Ozone layer

Question 27

Radiation

Question 28

Convection

Question 29

Conduction

Question 30

(Lowest Layer) → → → → (Highest Layer)

Question 31

What is the composition of the atmosphere

Question 32

Which layer of the atmosphere contains the ozone layer?

Question 33

Which layer of the atmosphere is where weather & storms occur?

Question 34

Which layer of the atmosphere is where the jet stream is?

Question 35

What are weather conditions under high pressure?

Question 36

What are weather conditions under low pressure?