Earth’s major System Lesson 1 and 2

Question 1

The layer of glass that surround earth

Answer 1

Atmosphere

Question 2

Earth’s water,whether found on continent or in oceans,including freshwater in glacier,lakes,rivers,and underground

Answer 2

Hydrosphere

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Biosphere

Question 4

The layer of rocks,dirt,and soil on earth,including the mantle,core and crust

Answer 4

Geosphere

Question 5

Earth’s solid,rocky surface

Answer 5

Crust

Question 6

The layer 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 drift

Question 9

Scientific theory that earth’s crust is made of moving plates

Answer 9

Tectonic plates

Question 10

A pattern or crack in the rocks of earth’s crust where movement can take place

Answer 10

Fault

Question 11

The atmosphere contains. Which plants needs it to make food

Answer 11

Carbon dioxide

Question 12

The. protects living things in biosphere

Answer 12

Ozone layer

Question 13

The. influence wester patterns

Answer 13

Geosphere

Question 14

A. Scientist who examines rocks to find out about earth’s history and structure

Answer 14

Geologist

Question 15

Thought earth’s continents were a giant jigsaw puzzle

Answer 15

Alfred Wegener

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Plate tectonics

Question 17

Is the squeezing or a pushing together of the crust

Answer 17

Compressed

Question 18

Then a plate is compressed,the crust is forced upward,produced

Answer 18

Folding mountains

Question 19

Rocks break down and become

Answer 19

Sediment

Question 20

Soil forms in layer called

Answer 20

Horizon

Question 21

is sandy and doesn’t have much humus

Answer 21

Desert soil

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Grassland and prairie soil