Layers of Earth Creation of Earth Vocabulary 1 Vocabulary 4
They are the 3 major layers that make up the Earth.
What are the crust, mantle and core?
. It includes all the water on earth.
What is the hydrosphere?
It is the air that surrounds the earth’s surface.
What is the atmosphere?
It is the part of the biosphere that contains earth’s solid surface and the interior.
What is the lithosphere
Oxygen (O 2 ) is to atmosphere as H 2 O is to this
What is the hydrosphere?
Life could not survive because Earth’s atmosphere was originally this
What is toxic?
It is the theory that Earth’s surface cracked into plates millions of years ago and these plates have been moving and shifting ever since.
What is Plate tectonics?
DAILY DOUBLE
It is the organism that is believed to be responsible for adding oxygen to earth’s atmosphere, allowing other life to evolve.
What is cyanobacteria?
Place the following in order to describe the creation of earth 1.The earth began to cool. 2.Energy heated the new planet to high temperatures 3.Earth’s molten surface hardened into rock. 4.Gas and rocky debris circling the sun crashed together.
4,2,1,3
It is the name for the part of the earth north of the equator.
What is the Northern Hemisphere?
They are tiny organisms that live in Earth’s most harsh or extreme environments
What are extremophiles?
It is hot and humid on average. This statement is a description of an area’s ________.
What is climate?
It is to atmosphere what water is to hydrosphere.
What is air?
Without this part of the biosphere the earth’s temperatures would be too hot during the day and too cold at night to support life.
What is the atmosphere?
It is found in the stratosphere and gives some protection from ultraviolet radiation.
What is the ozone?
It is the major driving force for the temperature of earth. It also supplies most of the earth’s energy.
What is the sun?
They are the two major climate related factors that determine where an organism can survive.
What are temperature & average rainfall?
It is the reason that oobleck is used to demonstrate the earths asthenosphere.
What are the properties of solids and liquids?
They are the 4 the major driving forces that affect climate and weather.
What is the sun, air movement, the shape of the land and water content.
Explain how temperature differences cause air movement.
Warm molecules move faster and spread out becoming less dense so these molecules rise. Cold molecules move slower and are located closer together so the air is more dense and sinks.