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Earth's Layers
Measuring and Conversions
Earth Science Sciences
Latitude/Longitude
Time Zones
100
What layer is considered to be the deepest within the Earth
What is the Inner Core
100
The basic unit of mass
What is gram
100
Loosens and transports sediment by gravity, wind, water, or ice.
What is erosion?
100
The 2 types of glaciers.
What are Continental and Alpine?
100
Name of the landmass before the continents drifted apart.
What is pangaea?
200
We are considered to be living on what layer
What is the crust
200
Convert the following into scientific notation .000045
4.5 X 10 (exponent -5)
200
Creates sand dunes and rock arches.
What is wind erosion?
200
The process of physical weathering and erosion by ice.
What is glaciation?
200
This can occur at any plate boundary to release stress.
What is an earthquake?
300
This layer lies between the crust and the core
What is the mantle
300
Convert the following into standard format 6.2 X 10 (exponent 6)
6,200,000
300
Creates landforms such as valleys, canyons, caverns or floodplains.
What is water erosion?
300
The type of valleys glaciers form.
What are u-shaped valleys?
300
Beaches change shape and size because of ___________.
What is wave erosion?
400
This layer that has oceanic and continental
What is the crust
400
The basic unit of volume
What is liter
400
A curve or bend in a stream bed.
What is a meander?
400
Long Island and Cape Cod were created this way.
What are terminal moraines?
400
River erosion can move all sizes of ______________.
What is sediment?
500
The asthenosphere and lithosphere are both part of what layer
What is the mantle
500
How many grams are in 153 kilograms
153,000 grams
500
Triangle-shaped area at the mouth of a river and where deposition occurs.
What is a delta?
500
Created by glacial weathering and is evidence of glacial activity, specifically abrasion.
What are striations?
500
The material that is produced by explosive volcanoes.
What is pyroclastic material