Fresh Water
Where most freshwater is found
What are glaciers or ice
What are the two types of crust?
What are oceanic and continental?
This is used to find direction on a map
What is a compass?
This is the name for water coming down from the atmosphere in the form of rain, snow, sleet, or hail
What is precipitation?
A Natural landforms that reach high elevations. Narrow summits/tops and steep slopes/sides
What are mountains?
Where do we get our freshwater here in San Diego?
What is the Colorado River?
This is the thickest layer
What is the mantle?
This is used to determine what symbols mean on a map
What is a legend or a key?
This occurs when the physical state of water is changed from a liquid state to a gaseous state
What is evaporation?
Flat land areas that do not rise far above sea level
What are plains?
This is what water is called when it seeps into the Earth after a large rain or snow
What is groundwater?
This layer has all of the crust and bit of the upper mantle
What is the lithosphere?
This shows the ratio between a unit of length on the map and a unit of distance on the earth
What is the scale?
This is is the process by which water vapor changes it's physical state from a vapor, most commonly, to a liquid
What is condensation?
Broad, flat areas of land that rise more than 600 meters above sea level
What are plateaus?
The amount of space between particles of soil
What is soil porosity?
Why is the inner core solid unlike the outer core?
What is the pressure of all the layers above it?
This is used to measure the distance East and West of the prime meridian
What is longitude?
This is when water inside of plants is transferred from the plant to the atmosphere as water vapor through numerous individual leave openings
What is transpiration
A section of land surrounded by water on three sides
What is a peninsula?
These are two categories of freshwater we use to describe the mineral content of it
What is hard and soft water
These are gigantic pieces of the Earth's crust and uppermost mantle. They are made up of oceanic crust and continental crust.
What are tectonic plates?
This imaginary line cuts the Earth in half horizontally - is also a hotspot for biodiversity
What is the equator?
This is the flow from a drainage basin or watershed that appears in surface streams
What is runoff?
A series of mountains arranged in a line
What is a mountain range?