Review Dynamic earth unit
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What are the compositional and physical layers of the earth?
What is the evidence for plate tectonics?
What is the lithosphere and how is it created?
Where are most volcanoes located? What are these areas called?
How did the earth form? What caused the crust to melt into the magma?
What is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere? What are the layers of the atmosphere? Why does the
atmosphere have four different layers and not just one layer? What layer contains ozone?
What are the greenhouse gasses, what do they do? What is the greenhouse effect? What does it help with here
on planet earth? Which greenhouse gasses absorb the most solar radiation?
How does the earth rotate? What does the rotation directly influence?
Energy in the atmosphere: Convection currents (hot low pressure air and cold high pressure air), radiation,
conduction. What causes convection currents to occur?
What is the hydrosphere? What are the properties of water?
What is the importance of ocean currents and temperature? Where does most precipitation take place
(northern or southern),
Where most of our freshwater located in what? How and why does ocean water move around the earth?
What is the gulf stream? Why is it important?
What causes hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons to take place? What causes their rotation? Does the rotation
change in the northern and southern hemisphere?
What are the three types of plate boundaries? Describe how they operate.
Review Dynamic earth unit
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
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12.
13.
14.
15.
What are the compositional and physical layers of the earth?
What is the evidence for plate tectonics?
What is the lithosphere and how is it created?
Where are most volcanoes located? What are these areas called?
How did the earth form? What caused the crust to melt into the magma?
What is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere? What are the layers of the atmosphere? Why does the
atmosphere have four different layers and not just one layer? What layer contains ozone?
What are the greenhouse gasses, what do they do? What is the greenhouse effect? What does it help with here
on planet earth? Which greenhouse gasses absorb the most solar radiation?
How does the earth rotate? What does the rotation directly influence?
Energy in the atmosphere: Convection currents (hot low pressure air and cold high pressure air), radiation,
conduction. What causes convection currents to occur?
What is the hydrosphere? What are the properties of water?
What is the importance of ocean currents and temperature? Where does most precipitation take place
(northern or southern),
Where most of our freshwater located in what? How and why does ocean water move around the earth?
What is the gulf stream? Why is it important?
What causes hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons to take place? What causes their rotation? Does the rotation
change in the northern and southern hemisphere?
What are the three types of plate boundaries? Describe how they operate.