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Earth
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Earth's center and its hottest layer. | Core |
| Middle layer of the earth. | Mantle |
| Hot, soft rock that the mantle is made up of. | Magma |
| Magma that reaches Earth's upper layer through openings | Volcanoes |
| The outer most layer of Earth. | Crust |
| These float on the soft rock below the crust on the Mantle. | Plates |
| Plates of Earth's surface scraping against one another causes a release of energy. | Earthquakes |
| Places where pieces of Earth's crust move, bend, or break. | Faults |
| The pocket of gas surrounding the earth. | Atmosphere |
| All of Earth's water. | Hydrosphere |
| Theory of how Earth's continents move over the surface. | Continental Drift |
| All of the land on Earth joined together to form a "Super Continent". | Pangaea |
| When Magma is cooled. | Igneous Rock |
| Rocks made up of layers of sediment. | Sedimentary Rock |
| Rocks created through heat and pressure. | Metamorphic Rock |
| Remains or traces of once living organisms found in sedimentary rock. | Fossils |
| Physical features on the Earth's surface. | Landforms |
| Downhill movement of rock and soil because of gravity. | Mass Movement |
| Process of dropping, or depositing, sediments to a new location. | Deposition |
| Process of moving sediment from one place to another. | Erosion |
| Thick sheets of ice formed in areas where more snow falls in the winter than melts in the summer. | Glaciers |
| Useful minerals and other materials that people take from the Earth. | Natural Resources |
| Process of breaking rock into soil, sand, and other tiny pieces called sediment. | Weathering |
| Large mounds of wind-blown sand. | Dunes |
| Resource that is replaced as it is used. | Renewable Resources |
| Natural resource that can be used more than once. | Reusable Resources |
| Resource that cannot be replaced as it is used up. | Nonrenewable Resources |
| Fuel formed from the remains of once-living organisms. | Fossil Fuels |
| Another name for reusable resources. | Inexhaustible Resources |
| World's most widely used fossil fuel. | Petroleum |
| Gas, mostly methane, found with petroleum. | Natural Gas |
| Large holes that often appear in areas of limestone. | Sinkhole |
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