4A
This liquid is the only liquid known to sustain life for all living things.
What is water?
This feature of the earth causes the earth's seasons.
What is tilt?
This word means "study of the earth"
What is geology?
This is the thinnest layer of the earth.
What is the earth's crust?
This is a natural resource that has an unlimited supply or can easily be replenished.
What is a renewable resource?
This keeps the earth from wobbling and provides a night light.
What is the earth's large moon?
This feature of the sun is just right for photosynthesis.
What is composition? - what the sun is made of.
(Distance would get half credit.)
This is the age of the earth according to young earth creationists.
What is 6,000-7,000 years?
This part of the earth is composed mostly of iron.
What is the earth's core?
These traits are what make a resource precious or valuable.
What are supply and demand or need and accessibility?
This planet protects the earth from asteroids.
What is Jupiter?
This feature of the earth keeps daily temperature swings manageable and also decreases wild weather.
What is rotation speed?
This person introduced uniformitarianism to geology.
Who is James Hutton?
These waves help theorize about layers inside the earth.
What are seismic (earthquake) waves?
These managers are concerned with nonrenewable resources and with how fast renewable resources can be replaced.
What are resource managers?
This gas is in the just the right concentration in our atmosphere to allow respiration without promoting forest fires.
What is oxygen?
This feature of the earth provides a large temperate (livable temperature) zone.
What is the earth's tilt?
This old-earth view-point includes assigning ages to rocks that extend back into time.
What is called the deep-time viewpoint?
This is the densest layer of the earth.
What is the core or inner core?
This is a resource which people cannot replenish but can conserve by recycling.
What is a nonrenewable resource?
This provides just the right amount of gravity to keep us from becoming weak or getting exhausted or even crushed.
What is the earth's mass?
This feature of the earth protects us from harmful radiation particles that are streaming through space.
What is the magnetic field?
This is the age of the earth according to secular geologists.
What is 4.5 billion years?
This layer includes the crust and a segment of the upper mantle.
What is the lithosphere?