Key Terms
Gases in Earth’s atmosphere that trap heat and help keep the planet warm.
What is Greenhouse Gases?
The planet known for having rings
What is Saturn?
Rocks can change from one type to another
What is the Rock Cycle?
The Earth’s outermost layer
What is the Crust?
All water on Earth
What is the Hydrosphere?
The process of moving sediment (soil, sand, rocks) from one place to another by water, wind, ice, or gravity.
What is Erosion?
What is Jupiter?
Forms from layers of sediment pressed and cemented together
What is Sedimentary Rocks?
Boundary where plates slide next to another
What is transform boundary?
All living organisms on Earth
What is the Biosphere?
Plates collide and may form mountains or volcanoes
What is Convergent boundaries?
Four layers of the Earth
What is the crust, mantle, inner core, outer core?
Forms from cooled magma or lava
What is Igneous Rocks?
Where most volcanos form
What is plate boundaries?
Tectonic plates float on what and can move over time
What is the asthenosphere?
The dropping or settling of sediment in a new location
What is Deposition?
The four inner planets
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars?
Forms when any rock is changed by heat and pressure
The youngest crust is located
What is Mid Ocean Ridges?
The lithosphere is made up of
What is crust and upper mantle?
The gas that is the primary contributor to the greenhouse effect
What is Carbon Dioxide?
List all eight planets in order closest to the sun to furthest away
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune?
Molten rock beneath Earth’s surface
What is Magma?
Layer of hot, slowly flowing rock beneath the crust
What is the Mantle?
List the five layers of the atmosphere
What is the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere