The -spheres
Earth's Interior
Earth Shaping Process
Landforms and Bodies of Water
Interacting with Land and Water
100

The covering of the air is known as what?

Atmosphere

100

The thin outer “skin” is called the what?

The Crust

100

The name Pangae means what?

Entire Earth

100

What are the three major bodies of water?

Oceans/Seas, Rivers, and Lakes

100

Most farmers produce only enough food to meet the needs of their own households. What is this called?

Subsistence Farming

200

The earth’s crust and the section of the upper mantle that moves with the tectonic plates is known as the what?

Lithosphere

200

The portion of the earth’s interior lying between the crust and the core is called the what?

The Mantle

200

What are deep cracks in the earth’s surface where two pieces of land have moved in different directions?

Faults

200

The main river and all its tributaries are called? 

River System

200

What is the second main form of agriculture?

Animal husbandry

300

All the water on the earth’s surface, underground and in the air is known as what?

Hydrosphere

300

Shaking, trembling. Or concussion of the earth due to subterranean causes. This is the definition for the which vocabulary word?

Earthquakes

300

The greatest land displacement ever recorded was recorded where?

Alaska

300

Plateaus are often called what because they are elevated like a tabletop?

Tablelands

300

What are the three verbs that exemplify man’s job and relation to creation?

Tend, care, and rule

400

What consists of all the different areas on earth where life can exist and the living organisms that live there?

Biosphere

400

What is the process of convection?

As material heats up, it rises. Then it cools and falls.

400

As the plate moves over the hot spot, what is created?

An island

400

The tectonic process by which the relatively thin and dense oceanic crust slowly slides down and under the more massive but less dense continental crust is called?

Subduction

400

At the end of the eighteenth century, an agricultural revolution took place and then spread to the U.S?

Great Britain

500

Fish, algae, fungi, plants, insects, arachnids, animals, and human beings help to make up what?

Biosphere

500

The molten rock in the earth’s mantle. This is known as?

Magma

500

What are the two external factors that shape the earth? How?

Weathering and Erosion. Weathering results in the breaking down of rocks and erosion is the process of them moving 

500

Geographers rank river systems by comparing various features. Name 2 out of 4. 

Length, Discharge, Drainage Area, and Navigability

500

What is an alloy?

a metal made by combining two or more metallic elements

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