Chapter 6 ( 1,2, and 3) Vocabulary Assignment

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What is the biosphere?

Back

All the parts of Earth where there is life

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What does the geosphere include?

Back

Earth's solid and molten rocks, soil and sediment

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What is sediment?

Back

Material that forms when rocks are broken down into smaller pieces or dissolved in water

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What is magma?

Back

Molten or liquid rock underground

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What is a volcano?

Back

A vent in Earth’s crust through which molten rock flows

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What is lava?

Back

Molten rock that erupts on Earth's surface

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What does the hydrosphere contain?

Back

All the solid and liquid water on Earth

Front

What is the atmosphere?

Back

The layer of gases surrounding Earth

Front

The brittle, rocky, least dense, outer layer of the Earth.

Back

Crust

Front

the thick middle layer in the solid part of Earth.

Back

mantle