Earth Science

How do we name air masses?

• Water and temperature
• Air pressure
• Humidity and temperature
• Cold and warm

What is weather?

• the state of the atmosphere at a particular time and place
• sunshine and rain
• how hot or cold it is
• severe weather

A severe storm that involves high winds and forms over water is:

• tornado
• thunderstorm
• hurricane
• blizzard

What causes acid rain?

• High concentrations of sulfuric or nitric acid from pollution
• Fertilizer use
• Pesticide use
• CFCs

Where you will find the ozone layer.

• stratosphere
• thermosphere
• exosphere
• mesosphere

What is a trough?

• highest point on a wave
• lowest point on a wave
• longest point on a wave
• shortest point on a wave

Water stored below the Earth's surface is called:

• Groundwater
• Bogs
• Water in the ground

The land area that supplies water to a river system is called a

• water table
• trailer
• house
• watershed

A boundary where two plates slide past each other.

• convergent boundary
• convergent boundary
• transform boundary
• sergent boundary

This layer of Earth is the thickest part

• crust
• outer core
• mantle
• inner core