Vocabulary
The amount of mass, or substance, per volume of a material (how packed together something is), is called this.
What is density?
The solid part of Earth, including the soil and Earth’s rocky center is called this system.
What is geosphere?
The rocky, outermost layer of the earth is called this.
What is the crust?
These two measurements increase the deeper you dig into the Earth.
What are temperature and pressure?
The two types of crust are called this.
What are oceanic crust and continental crust?
The force of attraction between every object and every other object that exists because of mass is called this.
What is gravity?
The systme that includes all of the liquid water on or surrounding the surface of the globe, including the water of the oceans and the water in the atmosphere, is called this.
What is the hydrosphere?
This solid layer of Earth is made mostly of iron crystals.
What is the inner core?
Scientists analyze and use this type of date to determine the composition of the Earth.
What are earthquake (seismic) waves?
Scientists believe that Earth was formed this long ago.
What is 4.6 billion years?
An object that is shaped like a ball, with all points on the surface at an equal distance from the center, is called this.
What is a sphere?
This system is made up of all of the frozen water on Earth.
What is the cryosphere?
The only liquid layer of the earth which is metallic is called this.
What is the outer core?
These deep man-made structures have helped scientists study the earth, with the deepest being over 7.6 miles.
What are wells?
The formula to compute the density of a material is written as this.
What D=m/v?
The theory of how the solar system was formed is called this.
What is the Solar Nebula Theory?
This system includes all the life on Earth.
What is the biosphere?
The thickest layer of the Earth, making up over 80% of the total volume, is called this.
What is the mantle?
This is the "plastic", flowing layer within the mantle.
What is asthenosphere?
The density of liquid water is this.
What 1 g/cm3?
What is a triple beam balance?
The layer of the gases that surrounds the Earth is called this.
What is the atmosphere?
This layer is comprised of the crust and the uppermost part of the mantle.
What is the lithosphere?
This is the reason there are different layers of the Earth.
What is density?
To find the volume of an irregularly shaped object, like a small rock, a person could do this.
Read the displacement of the water after dropping the object in a water-filled graduated cylinder.