Dense City
Spheres
Layers on Layers
Surface Pressure
Vocab
100

What is the most dense layer of the Earth's interior?

Inner core

100

Name a part of the hydrosphere

ocean, lake, pond, river

100

What is the highest layer of the atmosphere?

exosphere

100

What happens to the pressure as you go further into Earth's interior

Increases

100

What is an object that looks like a ball and all points on the surface are an equal distance from the center?

sphere

200

Make the density triangle on your whiteboards

mass on top corner, volume and density on bottom corners. mass divided by mass and volume. volume times density on bottom

200

glaciers are apart of what Earth system?

cryosphere

200

What is the middle layer of the atmosphere where shooting stars occur?

mesosphere

200

what landform has a high relief and high elevation?

mountain

200

what is the brittle rocky outer layer of the Earth called?

crust

300

Volume: 56mL

Density: 1.4 g/mL

What is the mass?

78.4 g

300

What Earth System are plants apart of?

biosphere

300

what is the only liquid layer of Earth's interior?

outer core

300

what landform has a low relief and low elevation?

plains

300

what is Earth's entire solid body called?

geosphere

400

Density: 0.8 g/mL

Mass: 100 g

What is the volume?

125 mL

400

Where does the weather occur in the layers of the atmosphere?

troposphere

400

What layer of the atmosphere does the international space station reside?

thermosphere

400

What landform has a high elevation and low relief

plateau

400

the crust and the uppermost mantle are grouped into the what?

lithosphere

500

Volume: 50mL

Mass: 70 g

What is the density?

1.4 g/mL

500

what two systems are interacting if a human is swimming in the ocean?

biosphere and hydrosphere

500

What are the inner and outer core made up of?

iron

500

What is a difference between oceanic crust and continental crust? 

oceanic crust is more dense

continental crust is about 4 times bigger

continental crust is on land, oceanic crust is under water

500

what is the plastic layer between the uppermost mantle and the upper mantle?

asthenosphere