APES Flashcards
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11941967634 | Mezozoic Era | dinosaurs | 0 | |
11941967635 | Paleozoic Era | the oldest era - immediately after Precambrian; organisms developed hard parts | 1 | |
11941967636 | Cenozoic era | since dinosaurs to humans | 2 | |
11941967637 | Devonian Period | age of fish | 3 | |
11941967638 | Carbiniferous Period | coal was formed | 4 | |
11941967639 | permean | biggest mass extinction | 5 | |
11941967640 | cretacious period | 65 million years ago, dinosaurs went extinct | 6 | |
11941967641 | inner core | solid ball of nickel and iron, radioactive | 7 | |
11941967642 | outer core | liquid, magnetic field | 8 | |
11941967643 | mantle | largest | 9 | |
11941967644 | crust | Earth's outermost layer. | 10 | |
11941967645 | divergent | divide | 11 | |
11941967646 | Lithosphere | mantle and crust | 12 | |
11941967647 | asthenosphere | The soft layer of the mantle on which the lithosphere floats. | 13 | |
11941967648 | convergent | collide | 14 | |
11941967649 | transform | slide | 15 | |
11941967650 | atmosphere | thermosphere mesosphere stratosphere trophosphere | 16 | |
11941967651 | igneous | melting, granite | 17 | |
11941967652 | Sedimentary | weathering, erosion, layers, limestone | 18 | |
11941967653 | Trophosphere | weather, climate, cooling | 19 | |
11941967654 | Stratosphere | warming, ozone layer | 20 | |
11941967655 | Mesosphere | coldest, shooting stars | 21 | |
11941967656 | metamorphic rock | heat and pressure, marble, gneiss | 22 | |
11941967657 | Thermosphere | warmest, satellites, ionosphere, northern lights, aurora borealis | 23 | |
11941967658 | El NiƱo | warm air/ water doesn't go west; dry in west, drought, America's have severe rains; Africa gets drought | 24 | |
11941967659 | La Nina | more rains in Africa, colder winters and dry in America's | 25 |