Layers of Earth
What is the outer layer of Earth called?
What is the crust?
What does the hydrosphere include?
What is all water on Earth (oceans, rivers, ice)?
What happens during the summer solstice?
What is the North Pole tilts toward the sun, resulting in the longest day in the Northern Hemisphere?
What causes earthquakes?
What are sudden movements of tectonic plates?
What is a plateau?
What is a flat landform higher than the land around it?
What layer is the middle layer?
What is the mantle?
Name the four physical systems of Earth.
What are the hydrosphere, lithosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere?
What is an equinox?
What are the times when day and night are equal in length?
What is plate tectonics?
What is the theory that Earth's crust is made of moving plates?
Describe a valley.
What is a low area between higher land?
What is the mantle?
What is the thick, middle layer of hot, dense rock?
What is the lithosphere?
What are landforms like mountains, plains, and plateaus?
What occurs during the winter solstice?
What is the North Pole tilts away from the sun, resulting in the shortest day?
What is weathering?
What is the process of rocks breaking down at the Earth's surface due to factors like water, ice, or chemicals.
What percentage of Earth is water?
What is 70%?
Describe the crust.
What is the thin outer layer that includes land and ocean floors?
What is found in the biosphere?
What are living things, including plants, animals, and humans?
Why does the North Pole receive more sunlight in summer?
What is because of Earth's tilt?
What is erosion?
What is the movement of soil and rock by wind, water, or ice?
Define a peninsula.
What is land extending into water?
Draw a diagram of all the layers on earth.
Inner, Outer, Mantle, and Crust
How do these systems interact?
Water from the hydrosphere can affect landforms in the lithosphere, and living things in the biosphere depend on both. *
How does Earth's tilt affect seasons?
What is it causes varying angles of sunlight throughout the year?
Describe the effects of human actions on Earth's surface.
What are actions like mining, deforestation, and pollution that alter the landscape?
What is the water cycle?
What are the processes of evaporation, condensation, and precipitation?