Midterm Review

The only planet in the solar system known to harbor life and also called the living planet

Earth is consist of percent% water components

Are also considered as terrestrial planets

Is also called the ring planet

Is the 8th and farthest known planet from the sun in the solar system

Give the acronym of T.W.E.A.N

Gaseous layer that serves as a protective blanket of the earth came from the word atmos meaning gas and spira meaning globe or ball

The water part of the earth also came from the greek word hydro means water

Frozen water part of the earth system

Pertains to the solid part of the earth it came from the greek word geos meaning ground

Loosed rocks and dust that sits a top a layer of bedrock

Came from the greek word bios means life this subsystem is composed of all living things such as animals humans microbes and plants

Scientific term for living things

Scientific term for non living things

The movement of nutrients and other elements between biotic and abiotic factors

These are building blocks of rocks

A person who studies the formation occurrence properties composition and classification of minerals

There are _______naturally occurring minerals in the present time

Up to _____Minerals are discovered each year

A german mineralogist who created the hardness scale

Friedrich created the hardness scale

Is also known as rock salt

Mohs hardness scale

Naturally occurring solid aggregate of one or more minerals