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The parts of the Earth that contain living organisms.
What is the biosphere?
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The height of a point above sea level on Earth’s surface
What is elevation?
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Water that forms in clouds and falls to Earth as rain, snow, or hail
What is precipitation?
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Axis where the independent variable should be placed
What is the x-axis?
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The deepest oceanic trench on Earth.
What is the Mariana Trench?
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The ability to do work or cause change.
What is energy?
200
Natural hazard that occurs when an overflow of water submerges normally dry land
What is a flood?
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Most of the water in the hydrosphere (97%) is found there.
What is the ocean?
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You design a study to test whether changes in room temperature have an effect on science test scores. Dependent variable:
What are test scores?
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This sphere has existed for about 3.5 billion years
What is the biosphere?
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A landform made of sediment that is deposited where a river flows into an ocean.
What is a delta?
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Erosion, landslides, floods, and tsunamis are examples of these types of forces.
What are destructive forces?
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Body of porous rock saturated with groundwater
What is an aquifer?
300
Graphs used to track changes over short and long periods of time
What is a line graph?
300
Temperature at which fresh water freezes (in °C)
What is 0°C?
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What sphere is NOT represented in the image?
What is a the atmosphere?
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If a mountain peak has an elevation of 600 meters and the valley floor at its base is at 200 meters, what is the relief of that area?
What is 400 m?
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Any of the great flat sediment-covered areas of ocean floor.
What is an abyssal plain?
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Type of graph represented in the figure
What is a bar graph?
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A __________ enhances the process that’s already underway. It may cause more change.
What is a positive feedback?
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The land area that supplies water to a river system.
What is a watershed?
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How many peaks are present in the contour map?
What is 2?
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Four main parts to the water cycle
What are evaporation, transpiration, condensation, and precipitation?
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Text description that identifies the meaning of a specific axis
What is a label?
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The most extensive chain of mountains on Earth, stretching nearly 65,000 kilometers.
What is a mid-ocean ridge?