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Earth Science
Unit 1 Chapter 4 Study Guide
Earth’s Structure
1. How do Scientists know about the center of the earth? What is the deepest mine/well we have ever
dug? Have we even been able to dig our way to the Mantle? Why not?
2. What is the magnetosphere? Where does it come from? What does it do for us?
3. Where is the transition zone located?
4. What are the four main systems on Earth? Do they relate to or interact with each other?
5. Why does the Earth have a magnetic field? What element contributes to this?
6. What word do we use to describe the shape of a geographic area?
7. What are land forms? Which can be found in the United States? (Hint, look at the map in your
packet)
8. What are S waves and P waves?
9. Which layer of Earth is the most dense?
10. What in the thinnest layer of the Earth?
11. Which layer of the Earth has the most volume?
12. Glaciers are part of Earth’s __________________________.
13. What is the Geosphere?
14. (Analysis). No hint.
15. What do each of earth’s systems include?
a. Biosphere
b. Hydrosphere
Earth Science
Unit 1 Chapter 4 Study Guide
Earth’s Structure
c. Cryosphere
d. Geosphere
e. Atmosphere
16. What is the main element of Earth’s Core?
17. What does the Lithosphere “float” on?
18. How do scientists study Earth’s interior?
19. The layers of the Earth formed due to the __________ of the materials.
20. The crust and the uppermost part of the mantle combine to be referred to as the __________.
21. Earth became shaped into a sphere because of _____________.
Vocabulary to Know
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Sphere
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Atmosphere
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Plastic
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Primary Waves
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Secondary Waves
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Continental Crust
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Lithosphere
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Asthenosphere
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Crust