Latitude and Longitute
these imaginary lines run east to west around the Earth and measure north and south
What are the lines of latitude?
This is the outermost layer where we live.
What is the crust?
volcano erupt this hot melted rock from inside earth.
What is magma (or lava once outside)?
This soil feels gritty and drains water quickly
What is sand soil?
This is the layer of the air closest to earth where weather happens.
What is the troposphere?
These imaginary lines run from the north pole to the south pole
What are the lines of longitude?
This hot thick layer is beneath the crust.
What is the mantle?
Volcanoes often form where these giant plates meet.
What are tectonic plates?
This soil is smooth, holds water and can be sticky
What is clay soil?
This layer contains the ozone that protects us from UV rays.
What is the stratosphere?
This is the name of the 0° line of latitude.
What is the equator?
This is the very center of the Earth made mostly of iron and nickel
What is the core?
When plates pushed together, they can build these tall landforms.
What are mountains?
This is a mix of sand, silt, and clay. Great for growing plants.
What is loam?
This middle layer is where meteors usually burn up
What is the mesosphere?
This is the 0° line of longitude that runs through Greenwich, England.
What is the prime Meridian?
The crust is broken into big pieces called these.
What are tectonic plates?
This word describes some plates, slide past each other and cause earthquakes
What is a fault?
Soil is made from broken rock plus this once living material.
What is organic matter? (HUMUS)
This very thin outer layer is where satellites orbit
What is the thermosphere? Or exosphere.
Latitude and longitude together help us find this exact thing on earth.
What is a location or coordinates?
The core has two parts, a solid, inner core and this liquid outer part
What is the outer core?
The Ring of fire is a circle of volcanoes around this ocean
What is the Pacific Ocean?
The top layer of soil where most plants grow best
What is topsoil?
What atmosphere is mostly made of these two gases
What are nitrogen and oxygen?