1. What is the differentiation between earth's layers? 2. What is the difference between continental and oceanic crust?
3. Which layer is the largest? What is it made of?
4. How do the inner and outer core differ?
5. Where do convection currents take place?
6. What is the Asthenosphere made of ?
7. Are the Lithosphere and Asthenosphere the same thing?
8. Explain a convection cell. Where does this take place.
9. What is unique about meteorites?
10. How long did it take Earth to grow to its present size?
11. Explain Hartman's theory on how the Moon formed.
12. What happens to the temperature as we traveled closer to the center of the Earth?
13. What happens to the pressure as we traveled down?
14. The plates of the lithosphere move slowly because they float on top of the asthenosphere.
Describe how the molten material in the mantle causes this movement of the lithospheric plates.
15. What is the atmosphere? How many layers does it have.
16. Why is the biosphere special?
17. What does the hydrosphere contain? Give at least three examples
18. What is the geosphere made of? Can we live without it?
19. Earth system science is