Chapter 2 Section 1
the water areas of the earth,including oceans, lakes, rivers, and other bodies of water.
What is hydrosphere?
outer layer of the earth, a hard rocky shells forming earths surface
What is crust?
the process of converting liquid into vapor
what is evaporation?
an imaginary line that follows the curve of the Earth and represents the shortest distance between two points.
What is map projection?
a way of looking at the human and physical patterns on Earth and their relationships to one another.
What is spatial perspective?
uppermost layer of the earth that includes the crust, continents,and ocean basins.
What is lithosphere?
to bring into being or cause to exist
What is create?
the process of excess water vapor changing into liquid water when warm air cools
what is condensation?
a map created by projecting an image of Earth onto a geometric plane.
What is planar projection?
the specific location of a place, including its physical setting.
What is site?
a thin layer of the gases that surrounds the earth
What is atmosphere?
molten rock that is located below earths surface
what is magma
unchanging
what is constant?
a map created by projecting an image of Earth onto a cone placed over part of an Earth model
What is cylindrical projection?
the geographic position of a place in relation to other places or features of a larger region
What is situation?
the part of the earth where life exists
What is biosphere?
a bend in layers of rock, sometimes caused by plate movement.
what is fold?
gigantic
what is enormous?
a map created by projecting an image of Earth onto a cone placed over part of an Earth model.
What is conic projection?
primary
part of the continent that extends out underneath the ocean
What is continental shelf?
a crack or break in earths crust
what is a fault?
underground water bearing layers of porous rock,sand, or gravel
what is aquifer underground water bearing layer
the exact position of a place on Earth's surface.
What is absolute location?
a shift from a previous condition
What is fluctuation?