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Earth Science Ch 2
Earth Science Ch 2
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What is topography?
the composition of Earth's layers
the shape of geographis area
a type of television
the kind of rocks in an area
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Plains have
high elevation and low relief
low elivation and high relief
low elivation and low relief
high elevation and high relief
3
What is the Biosphere?
all non-living things on Earth
all of the bacteria on Earth
all living things on Earth
all of the humans on Earth
4
Topographic features formed by the process that shaped the Earth's surface are called?
continents
rivers
landforms
oceans
5
Earth's entire solid body is the ____________?
cryosphere
geosphere
hydrosphere
atmosphere
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What is the layer indicated by number 2?
crust
mantle
outer core
inner core
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What is water on Earth's surface, water underground, and liquid water in the atmosphere?
hydrosphere
atmosphere
geosphere
cryosphere
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Mountains have
low elivation and high relief
high elevation and low relief
high elevation and high relief
low elivation and low relief
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What is the layer of gas surrounding the Earth?
hydrosphere
geosphere
atmosphere
cryosphere
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What is the layer indicated by number 4?
mantle
outer core
crust
inner core
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What is the layer indicated by number 3?
outer core
crust
mantle
inner core
12
What is all of the frozen water on Earth's surace?
atmosphere
hydrosphere
geosphere
cryosphere
13
What is the layer indicated by number 1?
mantle
crust
outer core
inner core
14
What layer spins fast, causing waves in another layer, to cause the magentiosphere?
mantle
inner core
outer core
crust
15
As you go down toward the center of the Earth, pressure
decreases
increases
stayes the same
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The change in elevation in an area is known as its what?
evolution
elevation
slope
relief
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As you go down toward the center of the Earth, temperature
stayes the same
decreases
increases
18
Plataues have
low elivation and low relief
high elevation and low relief
high elevation and high relief
low elivation and high relief
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The height above sea level of a certain area is known as what?
slope
cross section
elevation
relief
20
How long ago was the Earth formed?
<p>4.7 million years ago</p>
4.7 billion years ago
2 million years ago
2 billion years ago
