Earth
Earth's Systems
Formation
Earth's Layers
Mystery
100
The shape of Earth.
What is spherical and flattened at the poles?
100
This system holds Earth's liquid water.
What is the hydrosphere?
100
The force that every object exerts on every other object because of their masses.
What is gravity?
100
List 2 ways scientists can study Earth's interior.
What are mines, wells, or earthquake waves?
100
The plasticlike layer in within the mantle.
What is the asthenosphere?
200
There is a slight bulge in this area of Earth.
What is the Equator?
200
This system forms a layer of gases surrounding Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
200
Name the 2 main factors that affect the strength of gravitational force.
What are mass and distance?
200
Brittle, rocky outer layer of Earth.
What is the crust?
200
The term used to describe differences in elevation.
What is relief?
300
The shape of an area's landforms.
What is topography?
300
This is Earth's entire solid body.
What is the geosphere.
300
The amount of mass in a material per volume.
What is density?
300
Name the 2 types of crustal rocks.
What are oceanic and continental?
300
Landforms with low relief and high elevation.
What are plateaus?
400
List Earth's layers from the surface to the center.
What are the crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core?
400
This is frozen water in Earth.
What is the cryosphere.
400
The cloud of ice, gas, and dust that formed our solar system.
What is a nebula?
400
The thick middle layer in the solid part of Earth.
What is the mantle?
400
Name 2 of the major landform regions we discussed in class.
What are the coastal plains, the interior plains, the Appalachian Mountains, the Rocky Mountains, or the Colorado Plateau?
500
Tell how the Earth is like a bar magnet.
What are opposite poles and magnetic fields on both?
500
Describe the biosphere.
What is I'll listen to your answers?
500
Solve the following: A chunk of gold with a volume of 5.0 cm has a mass of 25.0 g. What is the density of the gold?
What is 5.0 g/cm?
500
Explain how the inner core of the Earth remains solid even at high temperatures.
What is the high pressure causing greater density?
500
Give an example of how a plant in the biosphere interacts with the hydrosphere, geosphere, and atmosphere.
What is I'll check your answers?
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