Layers of the Earth
This is the layer of the Earth where earthquakes occur.
What is the Crust?
This is the thinnest layer of the Earth.
What is the Crust?
This is the layer of the atmosphere where most/all weather takes place.
What is the TROPOSPHERE?
This is the total NUMBER of LAYERS when combining those in the GEOSPHERE and ATMOSPHERE.
What is NINE?
(Inner Core, Outer Core, Mantle, Crust, Tropo, Strato, Meso, Thermo, Exo)
This is the Earth's Sphere that includes BACTERIA.
What is the BIOSPHERE?
These are the layers that make up solid Earth, IN ORDER from the CENTER outward to the SURFACE.
What are: INNER CORE, OUTER CORE, MANTLE, CRUST?
This is the term used for the parts of the crust that MOVE and sometimes bump into each other.
What are TECTONIC PLATES?
This is the name of the EFFECT that keeps the Earth warm enough to sustain life.
What is the GREENHOUSE EFFECT?
This is the PHYSICAL PROPERTY of MATTER that is most directly responsible for the GEOSPHERE and ATMOSPHERE being organized into LAYERS.
What is DENSITY?
This is the name of the Earth's Sphere that the Hoover Dam is a part of.
What is the BIOSPHERE?
These are the names of the TWO METAL ELEMENTS that primarily make up the INNER CORE.
What are NICKEL and IRON?
These are the layers of the Earth in order of greatest to least THICKNESS.
What are Mantle, Outer Core, Inner Core, Crust
This is the name of the RADIATION from the Sun that the atmosphere protects us from. Must answer with the FULL name, not the acronym.
What is Ultraviolet Radiation?
This is the letter for which of the following are NOT a SYSTEM:
A.) A bicycle
B.) A pile of laundry
C.) The Earth
What is B?
(Remember a SYSTEM is a set of parts that work together to do something.)
These are the TWO Earth's Spheres interacting when a beetle dies, decomposes, and becomes part of the soil.
What are the BIOSPHERE and GEOSPHERE?
This is the name of the currents that travel through molten earth and are responsible for earthquakes.
What are convection currents?
This is the type of waves that surprisingly pass through the Earth's core, that helped Inge Lehmann make her discovery.
What are P Waves?
This is the layer of the atmosphere with the HIGHEST average TEMPERATURES.
This is the layer of the atmosphere where humans live.
What is the TROPOSPHERE?
This is the term used for something that is made up of many parts working together to do something.
What is a SYSTEM?
These are the FIRST NAMES of the two scientists that:
- Came up with the Theory of Continental Drift.
- Identified that the Inner Core is SOLID.
Who are Alfred and Inge?
This is the name of the scientist that created the model of the Earth which believed the core was ENTIRELY LIQUID.
Who was Beno Gutenberg?
This is the name for the STUDY of the ATMOSPHERE. Hint: this includes the study of all weather, and impacts of objects from space.
What is METEOROLOGY?
This is sum of the ATOMIC NUMBERS of the TWO most common ELEMENTS in the Earth's atmosphere.
What is 15 (Nitrogen-7 and Oxygen-8)?
This is the Earth's Sphere that has the LEAST amount of MASS per unit of VOLUME.
What is the ATMOSPHERE?