Earths Systems Flashcards
The layer of gasses that surround earth
Atmosphere
Earth, water weather found on continents or in oceans, including freshwater and glosses, lakes, rivers, and underground.
Hydrosphere
The part in which living things exist and interact
Biosphere
The layers of rock dirt soil on earth, including the mental core and dust
Geosphere
Rocky surface
Crust
The layer of earth is beneath the crust
Mantle
The central part of earth
Core
Is the slow movement over many
Continental drift
Scientific theory that earths Crust is made of moving plates
Tectonic plates
A pattern or crack in the rocks of earths crust where movement can take place
Fault
The atmosphere contains ________ which plants need it to make food
Biosphere
The __________ protect living things in biosphere
Ozone layer
A _________ scientist vocabulary, who examines rocks to find out about earth, history, and structure
Geologist
The Earth’s continents were a giant jigsaw puzzle
Alfred Wegenger
describes the atmosphere as being of huge plates of solid rocks
Plate tectonics