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How and Why
What's Inside?
What's Outside?
This and That
The Systems
100
Earth's shape.
What is sphere?
100
The three main layers of Earth's interior
What is crust, mantle, and core?
100
Topographic features formed by processes that shape Earth's surface
What are landforms?
100
Plastic layer within the mantle
What is asthenosphere?
100
The four major Earth Systems include...
What are geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere?
200
Main force in helping to form Earth
What is gravity?
200
Top layer of rock and uppermost mantle
What is lithosphere?
200
The height above sea level.
What is elevation?
200
Volume of a rectangular prism can be found by...
What is 'multiplying length times width times height'?
200
Earth's LARGEST system
What is the geosphere?
300
Force exerted on all objects due to their mass and distance from each other
What is gravity?
300
Four layers of the mantle
What is Uppermost Mantle, Asthenosphere, Upper Mantle, Lower Mantle?
300
Difference in elevation is know as this.
What is relief?
300
More dense materials do this.
What is 'sink to the middle of Earth' or 'sink to the bottom'?
300
This system is furthest away from Earth's center.
What is the atmosphere?
400
Cloud of gas, dust and ice is known as this.
What is a solar nebula?
400
Scientists use this to learn about Earth's core
What are earthquake waves?
400
Identify 3 common landforms.
What are mountains, plateaus, plains, islands, valleys, volcanoes, waterfalls, ...?
400
A box sitting on the floor models this type of landform.
What is plateau?
400
Rain and nitrogen are part of these two systems.
What are hydrosphere and atmosphere?
500
Amount of mass per unit volume of a material is known as this.
What is density?
500
Earth's largest interior layer
What is the mantle (lower mantle)?
500
Identify 5 landform regions in the United States
What is Atlantic Coastal Region, Appalachian Mountain, Appalachian Plateau, Piedmont Plateau, Gulf Coastal Plains, Interior Plains, Ozark Plateau, Rocky Mountains, Colorado Plateau, Columbia Plateau, Pacific Mountain Systems?
500
Explain how a plateau is different from a plain.
Plains have low relief and low elevation, while plateaus have low relief and high elevation.
500
2% of Earth's water is fixed in this system.
What is cryosphere?