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Daisy Desantiago, A1
ESPS study tool
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Open system? | In an open system thing can go in and out |
| Closed system? | In a closed system things are trapped with only heat and energy can get inside |
| What is a system? | something that is connected to other things |
| What are the four spheres? | - hydrosphere - biosphere -geosphere -atmosphere |
| what is causing the plates on earth to move? | plate boundries |
| Three types of plate boundaries: | Divergent Boundaries Transform Boundaries Convergent Boundaries |
| what are the two types of weathering? | Mechanical Weathering Chemical Weathering |
| How do plate boundaries relate to Pangaea? | Pangaea is what causes plates to move |
| what are two types of feedback? | positive negative |
| what event began to occur 200 million years ago? | large masses of land started to move closer together |
| what causes continents to move across earths surface? | plate tectonics |
| what body of water will start disappearing if Africa and Europe continue to crash into each other? | medeturain sea |
| Define subduction | plate moving sideways and downwards motion |
| What holds the hydrogen atoms the oxygen atom? | convalent bond |
| What may form when falling precipitation runs off the surface of the ground? | water will evaporate |
| What is a water cycle? | water cycled is the processes of which water goes in a circle |
| two ways in which water returns to the ocean from the land: | runoff groundwater |
| main reserviors for fresh water | frozen |
| In the atmosphere oxygen make up how much percent? | 21% |
| how does nitrogen from the atmosphere fall to the ground? | precipitation |
| we can not breath nitrogen, where do we get it from? | food |
| what are two ways human impact the nitrogen cycle? | smoke fertilizers |
| In a closed system, what is exchanged with the environment> | solar energy |
| where do both systems(closed and open) get energy? | from solar energy |
| give an example of how the atmosphere interacts with the biosphere?the | threw the rain that reaches the floor |