Extra Credit Quiz

How can you access oil

How are rates of cooling related to crystal size on an igneous rock?

Low pressure systems bring sun and high pressure systems bring rain

Who came up with continental drift

Which ocean is the largest and deepest

What are the layers of the atmosphere? 

Sandbags, dunes and sand fences do what to the shoreline?

Beach nourishment is...

 How many degrees of longitude are there in the eastern and western hemispheres?

What is density? 

What are non renewable resources

Biodiversity is good

What are the 4 mechanisms that lift air?

Which crust is the most dense

The ocean layer of rapid density change is thermocline

Convection currents occur in the inner core

The two types of crust are continental and oceanic

Saturation is the state or process that occurs when no more of something can be absorbed, combined with, or added.

What are the major air pollutants?

Barrier islands hurt the coastline

What tool is used to measure relative humidity? 

 What are the 2 types of igneous rocks? 

density affects an objects weight

The amount of salt in the ocean is called..

Hippo stands for H: abitat loss I:  nvasive species P: ollution P: opulation (human)O: verharvesting

How do scientist know about the structure of the earth's interior

What is a renewable resource

These are NOT the five factors of soil formation: climate, organisms, relief (topography), parent material, and time.

How many degrees of latitude are there in the northern and southern hemispheres?

What are the factors that increase biodiversity?

Fossil fuels are good for the environment

How are the layers separated?

the two types of weathering.

The 3 types of rocks are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic

What is nonpoint vs. point source pollution?

What direction do lines of latitude run? 

What are the main climate zones?

What is biodiversity?

Ocean tides result from the gravitational pull of the..

Natural resources are bad the environment

Percentage of Earth's crust is covered in ocean water

The four fronts are  cold fronts, warm fronts, stationary fronts, and occluded fronts. 

What is one of the four branches of Earth Science

What are the 4 air masses?

Smallest and shallowest ocean

What is the hypothesis called that states the continents once formed one single land mass

 What is sustainability?

The surface of the earth is called the..

The two settings of metamorphic rocks are  regional metamorphism and contact metamorphism.

Describe chemical weathering