Vocabulary
The process that breaks down rocks into smaller pieces
What is Weathering
How do we obtain groundwater?
By digging wells, or deep holes dug into the ground.
The Earth is the _______planet in size and ranks _______in size
What is third, fifth
The outer-most layer of the earth is called the _______
What is crust
Land takes up how much of the Earth's surface?
What is about 30%
A large, moving body of ice
What is a glacier
Where is most of the Earths Freshwater located?
Glaciers
About how much of the Earth's surface is covered by the hydrospehere?
What is 70 percent
What do we call the part of the earth that supports life?
What is biosphere
Give two examples of a landform.
Hill, Mountain, plateau ect.
The changing of liquid water into vapor, or gas
What is Evaporation
Movement of water from Earth's surface to at the atmosphere and back.
Water Cycle
The part of the Earth's surface that is land is called the _____________
What is Lithosphere
What do we call the watery parts of Earth?
What is Hydrosphere
What two words describe the Earth's inner core: A. Liquid and Hot, B. Solid and Cool, or C. Solid and Hot
What is C. Solid and Hot
An underwater extension of the coastal plain
What is the continental shelf
Precipitation can fall as what? 2 examples.
Rain, Sleet, Snow, Hail
What is the most active plate in the world?
Pacific Plate (Ring of Fire)
The surface land areas of Earth's crust
What is Lithosphere
A lake is a body of water that is ________________
What is completely surrounded by land
The processes that create many of Earth's physical features
What is plate tectonics
How many kinds of water are there?
2
What are cracks in the Earth's crust called?
What are faults
The layer of gasses that surrounds the Earth is known as
What is the atmosphere
Name the three layers of the Earth
What is Core, Mantle, Crust