Earth Major Systems

Question 1

The layer of gases that surrounded Earth

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Atmosphere

Question 2

Earth’s water whether found on continents or oceans including freshwater in glaciers lakes rivers and underground

Answer 2

Hydrosphere

Question 3

The part of the earth in which living things exist and interact

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Biosphere

Question 4

The layers of rock dirt and soil on the earth including the mantle core and crust

Answer 4

geosphere

Question 5

Earth’s solid rocky surface

Answer 5

Crust

Question 6

The layers of Earth beneath the crust

Answer 6

Mantle

Question 7

the central part of earth

Answer 7

Core

Question 8

The slow movement of the continents over many years

Answer 8

Continental sift

Question 9

Science theory that Earth’s crust is made of moving plates

Answer 9

Tectonic plates

Question 10

A pattern of crack in the rock of Earth’s crust where movement can take a place

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Fault

Question 11

The atmosphere contains which plants need it to make food

Answer 11

Carbon dioxide

Question 12

The protects living things in biosphere

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Ozone layer

Question 13

The influences weather patterns

Answer 13

Geosphere

Question 14

A scientist who examines rocks to find put about earth’s history and structure

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Geologist

Question 15

Thought earths continents were a giant jigsaw puzzle

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Alfred wegener

Question 16

Theory describes the lithosphere as being made of huge plates of solid rock

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Plate tectonics

Question 17

Is the squeezing or a pushing together of the crust

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Compression

Question 18

When a plate is compressed the crust is forced upward producing

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Folded mountains

Question 19

Rocks break down and become

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Sediment

Question 20

Soil forms in layer called

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Horizons

Question 21

Is a think layer of topsoil with little humus

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Forest soil

Question 22

Is sandy and does nit have much humus

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Desert soil

Question 23

Is rich in humus which provides nutrients for crops and holds water so minerals are not washed deep into the ground

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Grasslands and prairie