Spheres
This Sphere represents all of the water on earth
What is the Hydrosphere?
This is the creation or study of maps that identify landforms
What is topography?
What is a mountain?
This is the movement of water from the surface to the atmosphere and back to the surface.
What is the water cycle?
When water turns into water vapor due to energy from the sun
This Sphere makes up all of the rock and minerals.
What is the Geosphere?
Energy on earth comes from these two sources
What are the sun and earths core?
The low area between two mountains or hills
What is a valley?
Water that runs along the surface
What is runoff?
This is a type of evaporation that comes from plants and animals
What is transpiration?
These two spheres interact when water weathers and erodes the earth, creating rivers and canyons
What are the Geosphere and Hydrosphere
This is the largest layer of the Earth, and has convection currents
What is the mantle?
This is a landform with high elevation, but low relief (flat on top)
What is a plateau?
The majority of earths water is found here
A source of water that feeds into a river
What is a tributary?
This sphere is a part of a bigger sphere
what is the cryosphere?
This is a flat area on the ocean floor
what is an abyssal plain?
These are smaller bodies of water that are created from rainfall, empty volcano craters, and from melted ice
what are lakes?
When water becomes dense enough in a cloud to fall from the sky
what is precipitation?
What is an aquifer?
Other planets have all of the same spheres as Earth except for this one:
What is the biosphere?
When lines on a topographic map are closer together, the land is:
Steep or changing elevation quickly
What is a sea mount?
The majority of earths precipitation lands where?
What is the ocean?
The top layer of an aquifer
What is the water table?