Planet Earth
The part of Earth that supports life
What is the biosphere?
Molten rock below Earth's surface
What is magma?
Moisture falling from the sky!
What is precipitation?
A large body of ice that moves slowly across Earth's surface
What is a glacier?
Why does the earth orbit the sun?
gravity
All oceans, lakes, rivers, and other bodies of water
What is the Hydrosphere?
A hard, rocky shell forming Earth's surface
What is the crust?
What is desalination?
A crack or break in the crust
Longest day of the year...occurs on June 21st
summer solstice
The thin layer of gases above the surface
What is the Atmosphere?
Made of a solid, extremely hot inner layer and a liquid, extremely hot outer layer
What is the core?
The process of converting gas to liquid
What is condensation?
How many plates make up the Earth?
7
Name the coldest biome
Tundra
The regular movement of water
What is the water cycle?
Layer of hot, dense, flexible rock
What is the mantle?
Process of converting liquid to gas
What is evaporation?
The largest ice sheets are found of which two continents?
Greenland and Australia
Narrow strip of land connecting 2 larger land areas
Isthmus
Continents, islands, and other forms of land
What is the lithosphere?
The underwater extension off the coastal plain
What is the continental shelf?
A porous layer of rock with very slow flows of water that fill it
What is an aquifer?
Water contained in the Earth's crust is called?
Groundwater
Imaginary line running through Earth's center
axis