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Earth’s Systems and Earth’s Layers Study Guide
1. Know which substances are part of each Earth’s Systems:
Gasses in the air, oceans, lakes, rivers, ground water, rocks, soil, plants, living organisms
Glaciers,
2. Know Earth’s Layers from the surface to the center
Inner core, outer core, mantle, crust, etc.
3. Factors of the Earth’s layers:
Temperature
Pressure
4.
Know the Earth Systems and describe them:
biosphere
geosphere
atmosphere
hydrosphere
cryosphere
5. Describe interactions between the Earth’s Systems
6.
asthenosphere
continental crust
inner core
lithosphere
lower mantle
oceanic crust
outer core
upper mantle
7. Explain the differences between Earth’s inner core and outer core.
8. Think about Earth’s layers and how they are structured. Explain whether an apple or a
peach would make a better model of Earth.
9. Tell what Earth and a bar magnet have in common (magnetosphere