The Earth System
Earth's Interior
Convection and the Mantle
Miscellaneous Earth
Lab Connection
100
True or False - Earth is a continually changing planet.
What is true.
100
This is the thinnest layer of the earth.
What is the crust?
100
All Play - True or False - A fluid becomes less dense when it is heated, which causes it to rise.
What is true?
100
If the earth was a peach, the skin of the peach would represent this layer of the earth.
What is the crust?
100
True or False - The substance with the highest density ended up on the bottom of our density column.
What is true?
200
This type of destructive force occurs when rocks are worn down by water or wind.
What is erosion?
200
This layer of the earth is made of solid metals, such as iron and nickel.
What is the inner core?
200
This type of heat transfer occurs in Earth's mantle.
What is convection?
200
True or False - Of all of the Earth's four spheres, a penguin only belongs to the geosphere.
What is false?
200
This type of heat transfer cooked the marshmallow.
What is radiation?
300
This sphere of Earth's system contains all of earth's rock.
What is the Geosphere?
300
This is what geologists call the rocky upper part of the mantle.
What is the lithosphere?
300
When you feel warmth from the sun, you are experiencing this type of heat transfer.
What is radiation?
300
This is the correct order of earth's layers from the outside to the inside.
What is crust, mantle, outer core, inner core?
300
The film canister activity was modeling this type of evidence.
What is Indirect Evidence?
400
All Play - This American landmark was carved out by the Colorado River.
What is the Grand Canyon?
400
All Play - This kind of evidence includes data and objects that cannot be seen or studied directly.
What is indirect evidence?
400
This causes the heat that drives convection currents in the mantle.
What is Earth's core?
400
Give one example of a constructive force in nature.
What is volcanoes, earthquakes?
400
This type of force was demonstrated with the spaghetti tower activity.
What is a constructive force?
500
This vocabulary term means "the ability to do work."
What is energy?
500
This type of wave is studied by geologists to learn about the interior of the earth.
What are seismic waves?
500
This type of heat transfer occurs when an egg fries on a hot pan.
What is conduction?
500
This property changes as a material is heated or cooled.
What is density?
500
FINAL JEOPARDY - This group of islands in the Pacific Ocean was formed from the constructive force of volcanoes erupting from the sea floor.
What is Hawaii?
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