Section 1 Vocabulary
Section 3 Vocabulary
Section 4 Vocabulary
Forces and Effects
Layers of the Earth
100
Geography
What is the study of the earth?
100
Core
What is the center of the earth?
100
Plain
What is a low-lying flat or gently rolling land?
100
Water, plants, chemicals, frost
What causes weathering?
100
Outer Core
What is # 23 on picture?
200
Environment
What are the natural surroundings?
200
Erosion
What is the wearing away or moving weathered material?
200
Strait
What is a narrow body of water between two pieces of land?
200
High mountians form
What happens when two tectonic plates push toward each other ?
200
Crust
What is # 25 on picture?
300
GIS
What is computer software used to collect data and make maps?
300
Crust
What is the thinnest layer of the earth?
300
Plateau
What is a flat land at a high elevation?
300
Causes faults or volcanoes
What is tectonic plates that push away from each other?
300
Mantle
What is # 24 on the picture?
400
Landforms
What are individual features of the land?
400
Fault
What is a crack in the earth's crust?
400
Isthmus
What is a narrow piece of land that connects two larger pieces of land?
400
Erosion
What is caused by wind water and ice?
400
Inner Core
What is #22 on the picture?
500
GPS
What is a device that receives signals from satellites?
500
Weathering
What is breaking surface rock into smaller pieces?
500
A strait and a channel
What are two smaller bodies of water that connect larger bodies of water?
500
Earthquakes
What happens when to tectonic plates slide past one another?
500
Describe whether each layer of the earth is solid or liquid.
What is inner core-solid outer core - liquid inner mantle-solid outer mantle- liquid crust - solid
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