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Earth's Interior
Earth's Energy
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This is the outer shell layer of the earth's interior.
What is the crust
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This layer is made up of solid iron and nickel
What is the inner core
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The earth receives energy for life externally by the...
What is the sun
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A community of organisms and their environment
What is an ecosystem
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This is the layer of the atmosphere where all life exists.
What is the tropsphere
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This is the sphere that encompasses all of earth's water
What is the hydrosphere
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This layer is know as the "middle sphere" of the mantle.
What is the mesosphere
200
The earth receives energy internally from this
What is radioactive decay
200
A diagram sequence in which organisms consume another organism
What is a food chain
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This is the scientific study of the atmosphere, and specifically weather and climate
What is meteorology
300
The largest layer of the earth
What is the mantle
300
This layer represents both the crust and rigid upper part of the mantle
What is the lithosphere
300
This is where all life exist
What is the biosphere
300
These are organisms who create their own food
What is a producer
300
This civilization created an accurate calendar
Who are the Mayans
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A diagram that shows the feeding relationships among organisms in an ecosystem
What is a food web
400
This layer is made up of liquid iron and nickel
What is the outer core
400
This is created by the earth's outer core flowing
What is the earth's magnetic field
400
This cycle can create fossil fuels like oil and natural gas
What is the carbon cycle.
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Hurricanes usually spin in this direction in the Northern Hemisphere
What is counter-clockwise
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The largest a population that an environment can support at a given time
What is the carrying capacity
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This layer is below the crust and rigid mantle allows for tectonic plates to move.
What is the asthenosphere
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Is the earth an open or closed system and explain why
What is the earth is both because it mostly allows energy in the system but can allow some matter to pass through if large enough.
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In this cycle, a gas from the atmosphere is broken down by bacteria in the soil to allow for the release ammonia which plants use to grow.
What is the Nitrogen cycle
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List the steps of the scientific method
What are Observation, Asking Questions, Hypothesis, Experiment & Data, Conclusion, and Peer Review