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Vocabulary
Layers/Systems of Earth
Earth's Interior
Landforms
Toss Up
100
This is the earth system that includes its solid body
What is the geosphere?
100
This is the thinnest layer of Earth
What is the crust?
100
This is the liquid layer of the Earth
What is the outer core?
100
This landform is the most common
What is plains?
100
These are the two types of crust
What are oceanic and continental?
200
This is shaped like a ball, with all points on the surface at an equal distance from the center
What is a sphere?
200
This is the center of the Earth
What is the core?
200
This is the outermost physical layer of the Earth
What is the lithosphere?
200
This is the landform with high elevation AND high relief
What is mountains?
200
This is the density of an object that has a mass of 8g and volume of 3mL
What is 2.67g/mL?
300
This is the amount of mass in a material per unit volume
What is density?
300
This is the Earth system that contains all of the liquid water
What is the hydrosphere?
300
This is the "plastic" layer of the Earth
What is the asthenosphere?
300

This is the landform that has a flat top

What is a plateau?

300
This is the density of an object that has a mass of 10g and volume of 7.5mL?
What is 1.33g/mL?
400
These are topographic features formed by processes that shape Earth's surface
What are landforms?
400
This is the Earth system that contains all of the living organisms
What is the biosphere?
400
This is the thick middle layer in the solid part of the Earth
What is the mantle?
400
This is the height above sea level that we use to talk about landforms
What is elevation?
400
This is the density of an object that has a volume of 20mL and mass of 8g
What is 0.4g/mL?
500
This is the force that every object exerts on all other objects because of their masses
What is gravity?
500
This is the Earth system that contains all of the frozen water
What is the cryosphere?
500
These are the two ways scientists can learn about the interior of the Earth
What is by drilling mines and wells or by studying seismic waves (earthquake waves)?
500
These are two ways a plateau form
What is forces uplift rock layers or forces cause collisions between sections of Earth's crust?
500
These are the six physical layers of the Earth in order
What is lithosphere, asthenosphere, upper mantle, lower mantle, outer core, inner core?