Geology/Earth Layers

The Study of the Earth

• Astronomy
• Earth Science
• Meteorology
• Geology

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Having to do with earthquakes and earthquake waves moving through the earth

• seismic

• meteorology
• geology
• volcanology

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Raw material that we use from our environment

• Processed foods and beverages
• Synthetic materials like plastics and metals
• Natural resources like minerals, timber, water, and agricultural products.
• Waste products from manufacturing

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-PS1-3

Resources that have an unlimited supply or are easily replenished

• Renewable resources
• Depleting resources
• Finite resources
• Non-renewable resources

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Natural resources that get used up and can't be replenished

• Non-renewable resources
• Infinite resources
• Renewable resources
• Sustainable resources

Effort to oversee and control the use of natural resources

• Environmental Oversight
• Sustainable Development
• Natural Resource Management
• Resource Exploitation

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NGSS.HS-ESS3-2

NGSS.HS-ESS3-3

NGSS.HS-ESS3-4

The belief that earth-forming processes are natural, have always been the same, and have always happened at the same gradual rate

• Uniformitarianism
• Creationism
• Evolutionism
• Catastrophism

Takes up 84% of the earth's volume, seismic waves travel differently through certain parts of the __________________________

• crust
• core
• mantle
• atmosphere

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-3

Geologists call the combination of the segment of the upper mantle and the crust the

• lithosphere
• asthenosphere
• mesosphere
• hydrosphere

The earth's outer layer, is solid, relatively low-density rock

• Mantle
• Core
• Lithosphere
• Crust