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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Conservation | Savins of national resources |
| Nonrenewable | Can't be replenished |
| Renewable | Can replenish itself in a short amount of time |
| Weathering | The wearing down of rocks |
| Erosion | When rocks/solid are moved |
| Deposition | When rocks/sediment are laid down in a new place |
| Weather | The state of the atmosphere at any given time |
| Climate | The pattern of weather in the area of a long period of time |
| Hydrosphere | Water |
| Geosphere | Rocks |
| Atmosphere | Air |
| Biosphere | Life |
| one way hydrosphere effects the biosphere | Living things from the biosphere need water from the hydrosphere to live |
| The land that is closer to a body of water will have | Cooler temperatures than land that is inland |
| What two vocabulary terms are most important to causing this change | Erosion and weathering |
| If these sediments are moved out to sea or carried by the wind and deposited somewhere else what term best describes what is happening | Deposition |
| Most of Earth is made up of | Salt water |
| Even though most of Earth's surface is covered by water. Only a small amount of Earth is made up of | Fresh water that people can drink |
| Lots of this water is | Frozen as glaciers or found underground |
| The form of fresh water that is most easily accessible and usable | Surface water |
| What are three ways that mining can affect the land | Create pollution', cause cave-ins, and displace plants and animals |
| The following form of energy is renewable or non-renewable | Renewable= wind solar water. Nonrenewable= coal oil natural gas |
| If AMS was looking to provide energy to the school with the least impact the environment. With specific forms of energy what would be used | Wind and solar |
| How can people help a forest that had many trees die because of acid rain | Replant trees find the source of the pollution and fix it |
| How might using fertilizer and can affect organisms living in the ocean | Fertilizer run off the land into the ocean |