Earths Systems Flashcards

1
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The layer of gasses that surround earth

A

Atmosphere

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2
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Earth, water weather found on continents or in oceans, including freshwater and glosses, lakes, rivers, and underground.

A

Hydrosphere

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3
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The part in which living things exist and interact

A

Biosphere

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4
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The layers of rock dirt soil on earth, including the mental core and dust

A

Geosphere

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5
Q

Rocky surface

A

Crust

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6
Q

The layer of earth is beneath the crust

A

Mantle

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7
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The central part of earth

A

Core

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8
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Is the slow movement over many

A

Continental drift

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9
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Scientific theory that earths Crust is made of moving plates

A

Tectonic plates

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10
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A pattern or crack in the rocks of earths crust where movement can take place

A

Fault

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11
Q

The atmosphere contains ________ which plants need it to make food

A

Biosphere

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12
Q

The __________ protect living things in biosphere

A

Ozone layer

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13
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A _________ scientist vocabulary, who examines rocks to find out about earth, history, and structure

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Geologist

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14
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The Earth’s continents were a giant jigsaw puzzle

A

Alfred Wegenger

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15
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describes the atmosphere as being of huge plates of solid rocks

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Plate tectonics

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16
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Is the squeezing or pushing together of the crust?

A

Compression

17
Q

When it’s late is compressed, the crust is forced upward producing

A

Folded mountains

18
Q

Rocks breakdown and become

A

Sediment

19
Q

Is a thin layer of topsoil with little hummus

A

Forest soil

20
Q

Is Sandy and does not have much hummus

A

Desert soil

21
Q

Is Rich in hummus which provides nutrients for crops and hold water so minerals are not washed deep into the ground

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Grassland and Prairie soil

22
Q

The influences weather patterns

A

Geosphere

23
Q

Soil forms in layers called

A

Horizons