Spheres
Which sphere includes lakes, oceans, groundwater, glaciers, and streams?
Hydrosphere
List the layers of the Earth from outside in
Lithosphere, asthenosphere, mantle, outer core, inner core
What are the three types of plate boundaries?
divergent
convergent
transform
Which sphere holds all the soil, rock, dirt, and iron in the outer core?
geosphere
Which layer is the thickest?
mantle
Which plate boundary involves plates sliding past one another in opposite directions?
transform
List all the spheres that contain both living and nonliving elements
hydrosphere, atmosphere, biosphere
Which layers are solid?
lithosphere, asthenosphere, inner core
Which plate boundaries result in uplift and formation of mountains or volcanic activity
convergent
How many zones are there in the atmosphere and how are they differentiated?
5
by temperature and altitude/density
Which layers are molten?
Which plate boundaries are prevalent in the Ring of Ring?
Convergent
List three things the atmosphere does for us.
protect from UV
protect from meteors
keeps out planet warm
Is the outer core or inner core thicker and what is the difference between the two?
outer
outer is liquid, inner is solid
Seafloor spreading is from what type of plate boundary?
divergent