Earth's Spheres
Vocabulary
Oceans & Climate Zones
Tectonic Plates
Weathering & Erosion
100
We have this many spheres on our earth that work together.
What is four?
100
This is a solid made up of a mixture of minerals that are pressed tightly together.
What is a rock?
100
We live on this layer of the earth.
What is the crust?
100
These are pieces of earth’s crust that connect together like a puzzle.
What are tectonic plates?
100
This the process of breaking down or dissolving the earth's rocks and soil.
What is weathering?
200
This sphere is the thin layer of gases that surround the earth.
What is the atmosphere?
200
This is the remains of plants and animals preserved inside of rocks from millions of years ago.
What is a fossil?
200
This layer of the earth is the thickest layer.
What is the mantle?
200
These tectonic plates slide past each other.
What are transform boundaries?
200
This is the movement of small pieces of rock to different locations by ice, wind, water, or gravity.
What is erosion?
300
This sphere is made up of all living things.
What is the biosphere?
300
This type of rock is formed when sand, mud, and the remains of dead plants and animals settle on the sea floor.
What is a sedimentary rock?
300
This layer of our earth has one part made of lava and the other part is solid.
What is the core?
300
Most of these tectonic plates boundaries are located on the ocean floor.
What are divergent boundaries?
300
This type of erosion caused the rocks to move.
What is water erosion?
400
These hazards happen because our tectonic plates move.
What are tectonic hazards?
400
This type of rock is formed when the lava from a volcano cools down.
What is an igneous rock?
400
These are two types of metal found in the earth's core.
What are iron and nickle?
400
This type of tectonic plate boundary will sometimes have one plate sink underneath the other because one plate is heavier.
What are convergent boundaries?
400
This type of erosion caused pieces of the rock to move.
What is wind erosion?
500
These hazards happen because of the weather.
What is a climatic hazard?
500
Fossils are usually found in this type of rock.
What is a sedimentary rock?
500
The core of our earth is solid because of these two things.
What is heat and pressure?
500
This scientist developed the theory of the Continental Drift.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
500
There are two types of weathering that can happen.
What is physical and chemical weathering?