Lesson 1
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Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100
The atmosphere, geosphere, biosphere, and hydrosphere.
What are Earth's four main systems?
100
Oceanic crust and continental crust
What are the two main types of crust?
100
Topographic features formed by processes that shape Earth's surface.
What are landforms?
100
Shaped like a ball, with all points on the surface at an equal distance from the center.
What is a sphere?
100
Four.
How many main systems does Earth have?
200
The force that every object exerts on all other objects because of their masses.
What is gravity?
200
The dense, metallic center of Earth.
What is the core?
200
When lava builds up.
How do some mountains form?
200
The outer part of the magnetic field that interacts with particles from the sun.
What is the magnetosphere?
200
The stronger force of gravity there is.
If the two objects have a large mass...
300
m/V.
What is the equation for density?
300
The thick middle layer in the solid part of Earth.
What is the mantle?
300
3-11.
How many major landform regions are there?
300
Areas with low relief and high elevation.
What are plateaus?
300
The pressure gets higher.
What happens to the pressure as you go deeper into Earth?
400
A cloud of dust, gas, and ice pulled together by gravity.
What is the solar nebula?
400
Earthquake waves.
What do scientists use to investigate Earth's interior?
400
Interior Plains.
What is the central part of the United States that is a flat, grassy area?
400
Lithosphere.
What is the rigid part of the uppermost mantle?
400
Continental crust is __________ than oceanic crust.
Thicker.
500
Solar nebula, disk forms, planets form, solar system today.
What is the evolution of our solar system?
500
High pressure.
What keeps the inner core from being a liquid?
500
480 million years ago.
When did the Appalachian Mountains form?
500
Asthenosphere.
What is the plastic layer within the mantle?
500
Cosmic rays and charged particles from the sun.
What does the magnetosphere interact with?
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