Landforms
Earth's layers
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
Earth and landforms
100
Earth has a variety of _____________, including mountains and valleys?
What is landforms.
100
Scientist group the mantle into how many different layers?
What is four.
100
What are areas with low relief and high elevation?
What is a plateau.
100
Scientist group the uppermost mantle into a rigid layer called the __________________.
What is lithosphere.
100
What is a way scientists have used to study Earth's interior?
What is gathering rock samples from the liquid outer core, weighing rocks found near the outer core, digging deep wells into Earth's core.
200
Landforms with low relief and high elevation are called ___________.They can form when forces within Earth ________ layers of rocks.
What is plateaus and uplift.
200
As Earth grew, it heated up inside. Its ______ softened and began to flow.
What is rocks.
200
What is the outer part of Earth's magnetic field that interacts with charge particles called?
What is a magnetosphere.
200
What is a landform?
What are topographic features formed by processes that shape Earth's surface.
200
Which of Earth's systems makes up all the living organisms found on Earth?
What is Biosphere.
300
Some mountains form when ________, material from volcanoes, build up.
What is lava.
300
What is the central part of Earth made up of?
What is metal (iron)
300
What is an attractive force that exists between all objects that have mass called?
What is gravity.
300
The movement of molten iron in Earth's core makes the planet act like a giant ______ bar, with on pole near the top of the planet and one pole near the bottom of the plant.
What is magnetic.
300
What happens to the temperature and pressure as you go deeper into the Geosphere?
What is both the temperature and pressure increase.
400
The young, rigid Rocky Mountains are in the _______ United States and Canada.
What is western.
400
The materials that had intermediate density formed the ___________ of Earth.
What is middle layer.
400
What is the name of Earth's entire solid body?
What is geosphere.
400
What is one of the major regions in the United States?
What are Colorado Plateau, Pacific Mountain System, Basin and Range, Rocky Mountains, Interior Plains, Ozark Plateau, Appalachian Mountains, Appalachian Plateau, Piedmont Plateau, Atlantic Coastal Plain, or the Gulf Coastal Plain.
400
What is the term used to explain how high or low a landform is above or below sea level?
What is elevation.
500
The ___________ formed about 480 million years ago. After millions of years of weathering and erosion, these mountains are ________ than they once were.
What is Appalachian Mountains, and shorter.
500
Density is a measure of the ________ of a material per unit of volume. The denser a material is, the more mass it is per unit _________.
What is mass, and volume.
500
What is the amount of mass in a material per unit volume?
What is density.
500
The magnetosphere is the outer part of Earth's magnetic field. It interacts with _______ and ________ particles from the Sun, trapping some particles and pushing away others.
What is cosmic rays, and charged.
500
How long ago do scientists believe our Solar System formed?
What is 4.6 billion years ago.
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