How Did Earth Form
The Earth's layers.
What is Crust, Mantle, Lithosphere, and Asthenosphere?
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Earth's Magnetic Field spins
What is the Outer Core?
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Mountains, Plains, Plateaus, and Canyons.
What is a Landform?
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Plains are relatively flat and low.
What is Plateaus?
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Land forms with low relief and elevation.
What are Flat Plains?
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Earth is formed by.
Whats the Influence of Gravity?
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Earth's Magnetic field..
What region of magnetism is made by the flow of molten material?
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70 percent..
what is the percent of the Earth covered by oceans?
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Plateau, Mountains, and Plains.
What are Earth's major landforms?
p. 60
Millions of years ago sediments were deposited near the Ocean floor.
What are Coastal Plains?
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describe the Earth by what.
What is the size and the shape of the Earth?
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Movement of molten materials.
What is the inner core?
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1,920 meters deep.
What is the depth of Monterey Canyon
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Height above sea level.
What is elevation?
p. 60
Flat, grassy area has thick soil, is well suited for growing crops and grazing animals.
What are interior plains?
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Name the Earth systems.
What are the Atmosphere, Hydrosphere, Geosphere, Biosphere, and Cryosphere?
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Protects Earth from cosmic rays and charged particles coming from the sun.
What is a magnetosphere?
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The largest mountain near the centers of the ocean.
What is the Monterey Canyon?
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The difference in elevation.
What is Relief?
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Erosion has reduced their average elevation to about 2,000 m.
What are Appalachian Mountains?
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Name the landforms on the Earth's surface.
What is Elevation, Relief, Topography, Plains, Plateaus, and Mountains?
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The effects of temperature outweigh the effects of pressure.
what is a Outer Core?
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The floor with mountains, valleys, and canyons.
What does the Ocean floor consist of?
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The shape of a geographic area.
What is Topography?
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Formed when forces within Earth lifted up huge sections of Earth's crust.
What is the Colorado Plateau?
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