Important Earth Vocabulary

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Water is a liquid found on Earth.Picture Credit:http://www.internationalliving.com/var/ezwebin_site/storage/images/media/images/honduras_beach/72278-1-eng-US/honduras_beach.jpg

A geologist is a person who travels around the world and studies rocks, fossils, and

rocks formations.

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The definition of atmosphere is the mass of air around earth.

A metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters.

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A layer of molten lava and nickel that surrounds the inner core.

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The way in which parts are put together to form a whole.

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One of the four layers of the Earth. The outermost layer.

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A dense sphere of solid iron and nickel at the center of the Earth.

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A magnetic dipole that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole.

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Basalt is dark, heavy volcanic rock that makes up most of the world’s oceanic crust.

A heavy magnetic metallic element found naturally in the Earth; is silver-white in pure form but readily rusts; used in construction and

tools and armament.

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Scientists are people who study science.

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Something is Radioactive when an unstable atomic nucleus loses energy by giving off radiation.

Observing is looking at something very closely.

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Most of the nickel in the earth is in the middle, where it's not so easy to get at. However, every now and then a giant asteroid makes some of the

stuff available by making a big splash.

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Single thicknesses of a substance.

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The outer or the topmost boundary of an object.

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Fumes, lava, and dust and that discharge and can travel a far distance.

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The force exerted on a surface divided by the total area over which the force is exerted.