Layers of the Earth
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 thinnest layer of solid 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 in the GEOSPHERE and ATMOSPHERE. combined.
What is NINE (9)?
(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 names of the TWO METAL ELEMENTS that primarily make up the INNER CORE.
What are NICKEL and IRON?
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?
(mass per unit volume)
This is the name of the Earth's Sphere that the Hoover Dam is a part of.
What is the BIOSPHERE?
This is the name of the currents that travel through molten earth and are responsible for tectonic plate movement.
What are Convection Currents?
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 corresponding to which of the below 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?
These are the THREE main types of plate boundaries (must name all three.)
What are CONVERGENT, DIVERGENT, and TRANSFORM?
This is the type of seismic waves that 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.
What is the thermosphere?
This is what it's called when parts of the crust move back down into the mantle; generally happens only at convergent plate boundaries.
What is SUBDUCTION?
When an underwater volcano spews magma and ash into the ocean, polluting the water and eventually killing sealife:
These are the TWO Earth's Spheres that are interacting in the LONG TERM.
What are BIOSPHERE and HYDROSPHERE?
These are the FIRST NAMES of these THREE scientists:
- Came up with the Theory of Continental Drift.
- Identified that the Inner Core is SOLID.
- Developed the Periodic Table.
Who are Alfred, Inge, and Dmitri?
This is the name of the scientist who created the now-outdated model of the Earth which indicated 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.
What is METEOROLOGY?
This is the product of the ATOMIC NUMBERS of the TWO most common ELEMENTS in the Earth's atmosphere.
What is 56 (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?