Earth's Surface 1
Earth's Interior 1
Earth's Surface 2
Earth's Interior 2
General Science
100
It is shaped like a ball, with all points on the surface at an equal distance from the center.
What is a sphere?
100
Where scientists explore the geosphere by going deep inside the Earth.
What are mines?
100
Topographic features formed by processes that shape Earth's surface.
What are landforms?
100
The dense metallic center of the Earth.
What is the core?
100
The exploration and investigation of natural events and of the new information that results from those investigations.
What is science?
200
The brittle rocky outer layer of Earth.
What is the crust?
200
The resulting waves of these help scientists learn more about the Earth's interior.
What are earthquakes?
200
These are landforms with low relief and low elevation.
What plains?
200
The outer part of the magnetic field that interacts with cosmic rays and charged particles.
What is the magnetosphere?
200
Comparing what you already know with the information you are given in order to decide whether you agree with it.
What is critical thinking?
300
The force that every object exerts on all other objects because of their masses.
What is gravity?
300
This increases underground because of the weight of the overlying rocks.
What is pressure?
300
These are areas with low relief and high elevation.
What are plateaus?
300
The thick middle layer in the solid part of the Earth.
What is the mantle?
300
A rule that describes a pattern in nature.
What is scientific law?
400
The amount of mass in a material per unit volume.
What is density?
400
The rocks in the mantle are ______ than crustal rocks.
What is denser?
400
Landforms with high relief and high elevation.
What are mountains?
400
The rigid layer that scientists group the crust and the uppermost mantle into.
What is the lithosphere?
400
A possible explanation for an observation that can be tested by scientific investigations.
What is a hypothesis?
500
Earth's entire solid body.
What is the geosphere?
500
The inner core is made of ______ crystals.
What is iron?
500
The oldest mountain range America.
What are the Appalachian mountains?
500
The plastic layer within the mantle.
What is the asthenosphere?
500
An explanation of observations of events that is based on knowledge gained from many observations and investigations.
What is scientific theory?
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