Continents
This vast desert, spanning northern Africa, is known for its extreme temperatures and massive sand dunes.
What is the Sahara Desert?
This steady movement of water in the ocean, like the Gulf Stream, is driven by wind and Earth’s rotation.
Oceanography
The imaginary line shown on most world maps divides Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
Can cause water damage and flooding
What is a hurricane
This system is includes rocks and land
what is the geosphere
This towering mountain range, home to Mount Everest, was formed by the collision of the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates.
What are the Himalayas?
This type of cloud, often fluffy and white with flat bottoms, is associated with fair weather.
Meteorology
This type of satellite map helps scientists study weather patterns, including hurricanes and cloud movements in Earth's atmosphere.
What is a weather map?
This disaster can cause land damage and building to fall
This system protects us from the sun
What is Atmosphere?
This river basin is often called "the lungs of the Earth" because of its dense rainforest that produces significant oxygen.
What is the Amazon River Basin?
This is the closest star to Earth, providing energy that drives many processes on the planet.
What is the Sun?
I'm the map... I'm the Map... I'm the map
What is Dora
This type of fire, often started by lightning or human activity, spreads quickly through forests and grasslands, fueled by dry vegetation and strong winds.
What is a wildfire?
Give an example of how the biosphere and hydrosphere interact
Animals drinking water from a lake or fish living in the ocean
This isolated continent is home to some of the oldest rocks on Earth, such as those in the Pilbara region, which date back over 3.5 billion years.
What is Australia?
This process describes how plants take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen while making their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
This site you can use to find your way around
What is Mapquest
These massive ocean waves are triggered by underwater earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, or landslides and can cause widespread coastal destruction.
What is a tsunami?
What is the biosphere, and how does it interact with the geosphere?
The biosphere includes all living organisms. It interacts with the geosphere when plants grow in soil or animals create burrows.
This southernmost continent is covered by an ice sheet that holds approximately 70% of the world’s fresh water
What is Antarctica?
This naturally occurring solid mixture of minerals or organic material makes up the Earth's crust and can be classified as igneous, sedimentary, or metamorphic.
What is a rock?
Which map did I tell you not to get confused with each other and what purpose does each serve.
What is Political and Electoral. Political is just the 50 states and Electoral is for Presidential races.
What just happened in California?
A massive Wildfire
What are the four main Earth systems?
Atmosphere, Hydrosphere, Geosphere, Biosphere