Describing Earth
This is large and complex.
What is Earth?
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The brittle, rocky, outer layer of Earth.
What is the crust?
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Earth's spinning ___ creates the magnetic field.
What is core?
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Land forms are identified by these two things.
What is form and location?
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Earth used to be a mixture of this.
What is solid particles?
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All of these systems interact by exchanging ___ and ___.
What is matter and energy?
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The rock in the upper and lower mantle below the asthenosphere is ___ than the rock in the asthenosphere.
What is hotter?
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The inner core spins ___ than the outer core.
What is faster?
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The height above sea level of a particular feature.
What is elevation?
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There is a stronger gravitational force between Earth and this.
What is a denser object/ more dense object?
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Most of the water in the hydrosphere is in ____ ____.
What is salty oceans?
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This word refers to materials that are soft enough to flow.
What is plastic?
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The outer part of the magnetic field that interacts with these particles.
What is magnetosphere?
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Plains can form when these are deposited by water or wind.
What is sediments?
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The densest materials sunk and formed this layer of Earth.
What is innermost?
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It is the largest Earth system.
What is the geosphere?
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Crust on land.
What is continental crust?
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Earth's magnetic field is produced by the movement of these materials in the outer core.
What is molten?
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These can be formed from volcanic activity.
What is plateaus?
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Density comes from this Latin word.
What is densus?
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Water from the ocean evaporates into this.
What is the atmosphere?
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Continental crust is ____ times thicker than oceanic crust.
What is four?
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Over time Earth's magnetic ___ and ___ may vary.
What is strength and direction?
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The Appalachian Mountains began forming ___________ years ago.
What is 480 million years ago?
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Density can be described mathematically as this.
What is D=m/V?
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