Earth Science Semester 2 Final Review

What drives a hurricane?

Sandstone is made of sand sized minerals cemented together, what type of rock is this?

What is happening at this point in the rock cycle? 

Does this graph show evidence for a warming Earth?

What property of water is this: Thicker lava causes a more violent explosion

What is water pH level?

What is the amount of energy it takes to heat a substance by 1 degree?

What is happening at this point in the rock cycle? 

Is this a producer or consumer of carbon: Burning Fossil Fuels

What is happening at this point in the water cycle?

If our Earth warms, where will we have warmer temps & greener forests?

What stage is this: Our happiness levels are going down even though we are buying more stuff

What property of water is this: Coffee stains your teeth by dissolving your tooth enamel

Is this a producer or consumer of carbon: Breathing

Earth's early atmosphere was filled with greenhouse gases, was this a warm or cool Earth?

What causes the winds to be deflected?

What is happening at this point in the water cycle?

What stage is this: We are destroying the rainforests to mine tantalum

What process sorts, breaks down, and reforms trash into new materials?

What sphere is this happening in: Oceans absorb carbon dioxide making the oceans more acidic

If our Earth warms, where will we have more intense heat waves?

What is happening at this point in the rock cycle? 

What type of weathering is "ice wedging"?

Why is graph B a better example of what will happen as the human pop. cotinues to grow?

What does the evidence show? Decrease in sea levels

Climate change supporters say that humans are causing the planet to warm because:

Is this a producer or consumer of carbon: Soil & Oceans

Air conditioners, computers, & cars are examples of what that allowed people to live everywhere

Air pressure changes create _____________?

What property of water is this: Stalactites of a cave form from the ceiling

What describes how acidic or basic something is?

What process drives both wind and ocean currents?

What sphere is this happening in: Plants taking in carbon dioxide

What does the evidence show? More flooding and droughts

What does the evidence show? Coral reefs begin to bleach and oceans become acidic

What is created when air moves from high pressure to low pressure due to Sun?

What is a change in temperature that determines how much of a substance a material can hold?

What wind band is this?

What sphere is this happening in: Carbon is absorbed into the soil creating rocks

What type of feedback is this:The more sea ice that melts,more absorption, warmer the planet

What type of air is unstable?

What type of weathering is "stalactites & stalagmites"?

Renewable or non-renewable: Pine trees (christmas trees)

What process burns trash in a high temperature oven?

What is happening at this point in the water cycle?

What is happening at this point in the water cycle?

Diamonds are formed from extreme heat & pressure in the Earth, what type of rock is this?

Renewable or non-renewable: Coal

What type of weathering is "acid rain"?

Besides the atmosphere, what is the other big storage system of carbon?

What gas do humans breathe out?

A volcano erupts producing a lot of ash, would this warm or cool the Earth?

What describes the property of water that determines if a substance will dissolve in another? 

Why does ice float on water?

What two air masses create a tornado?

Renewable or non-renewable: Solar Energy

What is happening at this point in the rock cycle? 

What describes how thick or thin a substance is?

The amount of water and what other factor affects a substances viscosity?

What process creates a precipitate from a saturated solution?

If our Earth warms, where will we have more severe storms & flooding?

What is happening at this point in the rock cycle? 

Does this graph show evidence for a warming Earth?

What stage is this: Prices do not reflect the impacts on people or the environment

What property of water is this: Inner core is solid iron while the crust is made of silicates

What does the evidence show? Animal species rebuild their forest habitats

What gas do plants take it?

What is happening at this point in the water cycle?

Tornado season is spring & summer, when is hurricane season?

What type of weathering is "tree roots breaking the foundation of a house"?

What is the area called where most tornadoes happen?

What type of cloud is formed from a thunderstorm?

What form of carbon is found in the atmosphere?

What does the evidence show? Ice caps and glaciers are melting

Is this evidence for warming: Apr 2^nd we had a crazy snow hail storm. Avg temps for April is 60

Renewable or non-renewable: Oil

What process covers trash with soil and is left to decompose?

What sphere is this happening in: Carbon dioxide absorbs heat & creates the greenhouse effect

Why are the oceans salty?

Renewable or non-renewable: Geothermal Energy

What is the best reflector of solar radiation in the picture?

When the albedo increases, is the Earth warming or cooling?

What does the evidence show: More severe storms due to more water vapor

What event causes a thunderstorm to start forming?

What stage is this: "Dioxin" is a super-toxin produced when trash is burned.

Obsidian is made from cooled lava, what type of rock is this?

What causes the Equator to be hotter and the Poles to be colder?

Deep ocean currents are driven by:

What is water's polarity?

What stage is this: There are over 100,000 sythetic chemicals not tested for health effects

When the earth has a lot of ice, is there a high or low albedo?

What is the amount of stuff (mass) in a space (volume)?

Renewable or non-renewable: Tidal Energy

What type of feedback is this: The more trees we plant, the more oxygen, the cooler our planet

Renewable or non-renewable: Natural Gas

What property of water is this: Grass is wet in the morning (dew) even though it hasn't rained

What wind band is this?

What property of water is this: You cannot clean the oils off your face without soap

If our Earth warms, where will we have more blizzards?

What scale measures tornadoes?

What is the best absorber of solar radiation in the picture?

Climate change deniers say that humans arent causing the planet to warm because:

What sphere is this happening in: People burning fossil fuels in their cars

Renewable or non-renewable: Wind Energy

What property of water is this: Lake Michigan is warmer in the fall than the summer

What was the main reason cities exist in the places they do today?

What is the main input of albedo?

Surface currents are driven by:

Is this a producer or consumer of carbon: Geologic Activity (volcanoes, etc.)

What does the evidence show? Ocean currents change due to more freshwater