Earth's Spheres
The process called when rocks are broken down into smaller pieces?
What is weathering?
This is the outermost layer of the Earth.
What is the Earth's crust?
The collection of parts working together.
What is a system?
All of earth's spheres are interconnected. True or false?
What is true?
Name a constructive force that can create new landforms
What is Volcanoes?
Name the four main layers of the Earth in order, from the outside in.
What are the crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core?
The system that includes all living things.
What is the biosphere?
Natural events such as volcano eruptions can disrupt the balance in earth's spheres. true or false
What is true?
Matter and energy changing and cycling between the four different spheres. If it didn't happen life on Earth would not be possible.
What is interacting or interdependent?
The slow constructive force that created the Hawaiian Islands.
What is underground volcanoes?
What is the thinnest layer of the Earth?
What is the crust?
This landform is part of the geosphere.
What are mountains?
This word means that spheres are dependent on each other.
What is interdependent?
The four main parts of the Earth system.
What is the geosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere?
The destructive force that can flatten coastlines and move Earth back into the ocean.
What is a Tsunami?
This layer lies between the crust and the outer core.
What is the mantle?
This word (prefix) means "Earth"
What is geo?
This is an example of two spheres that are interconnected.
What is a volcano erupting?
The two different things that can be exchanged between spheres.
What is matter and energy?
What are volcanoes, tsunamis, and earthquakes?
Which part of the core is the hottest layer of the Earth?
What is the inner core?
This prefix means air.
What is atmo?
An example is fish living in the ocean.
What is interaction between biosphere and hydrosphere?