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The stuff that makes up everything around you
What is matter?
The 4 major layers of Earth
What are crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core.
Seven things that make Earth the only planet that can support life
What are:
1. Its distance from the sun
2. Its size
3. Its rotation4. Its atmosphere, 5 Its tilt 6. Its land 7. Its magnetosphere?
The imaginary line that divides Earth in half
What is the equator?
A big ball of magnetic power around Earth
What is magnetosphere?
A measure of how much matter is in something
What is mass?
The top layer of Earth
What is the crust?
The length of Earth's rotational period
What is 24 hours?
The top half of Earth
What is the Northern Hemisphere?
The part of Earth where the magnetic field is produced
What is the outer core?
How long it takes a planet to make a complete turn
What is rotational period?
The hot section of melted metals like nickel and iron
What is the outer core?
What is gravity?
The reason why we have different seasons
What is the tilt of the Earth causes us to have more or less direct sunlight, depending on where we are in our orbit around the sun?
The reason why God placed a magnetic field around Earth
What is to protect us from the dangerous particles coming from the sun?
The most important gas in our atmosphere
What is oxygen?
The # of miles deep you would have to dig to reach the mantle
What is 20 miles deep?
The reason mass is important
What is the mass of a planet determines the amount of gravity the planet has?
The month of the year that the Southern Hemisphere experiences winter
What is in June?
The reason a compass always point north
What is Earth has a a powerful magnetic field that pulls the needle of the compass toward the magnetic North Pole?
Space rocks that burn up as they hit Earth's atmosphere
What is a shooting star?
Holes in the crust allow magma to come up to Earth's surface from the mantle
What are volcanoes?
This would happen if we were farther away from the sun
What is the water would freeze, and we would have frigid, icy weather every single day of the year. Spring would never bring new plants and the animals would eventually die of starvation?
The name of the season in the Southern Hemisphere in December
What is summer?
This is how an aurora is created
What is energy of the collisions between the particles from the solar wind and the atmospheres gases produces beautiful colors in the sky?