Vocabulary
The physical process that breaks rocks into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
The process that creates many of Earth's physical features.
What is plate tectonics?
The lowest dry land point on Earth. The region it is located in.
What is the Dead Sea? What is southwest Asia?
The Earth's thinnest layer.
What is the crust?
Cause- Warm air cools
Effect/Cause-
Effect- Clouds form
Large, moving bodies of Ice.
What is a Glacier?
An underwater extension of of the coastal plain
What is the Continental shelf?
Terrestrial and Gas Giant planets are alike and different.
What is Terrestrial Planets have solid, rocky crust and Gas giants are more gaseous and less dense?
The Earth's innermost layer.
What is the inner core?
Terrestrial Planets- Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Uranus
Gas Giant Planets- Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn.
One is in the wrong group.
What is evaporation?
Terrestrial planets have in common...
What is gaseous formation?
A lake is a body of water that...
What is completely surrounded by land?
The Earth's layers between the outer core and crust.
The terrestrial planets have in common...
What is solid, rocky core?
The three types of _____ are seas, gulfs and bays.
What is body of Saltwater?
The water cycle show's us that Earth's water is...
What forces do you think contributed to the many differences in Earth's surface?
What is colliding and spreading plates, folds, faults; wind, and glacial and water erosion?
Layers that form the Earth's Surface.
Human societies suffer more from ____ than changes in temperature.
Human societies suffer much more from declining of irregular water resources than from changes in temperature. Climate models often make a rather poor job of stimulating even present-day precipitation or the balance between precipitation and evaporation.
What is declining irregular water resources?
Erosion is the wearing away of...
What is the surface by wind, glacier, and moving water?
What is core, mantle, and crust?
Define the two processes that involved in the wind and water movement.
Weathering is the process that breaks down rocks on the Earth's surface into small pieces. Erosion is the wearing away of the Earth's surface by win, glaciers, and moving waters.
This list is a list of ... The inner core, outer core, mantle, and crust.
What is a list of hottest to coolest?
The Crop Watch bulletin describes the dangers of ____
If we do nothing, it's likely that the wheat in some parts will be killed. Soil will be lost from already vulnerable spots in the field and end up in fence rows and roadsides. Not good environmental stewardship.
What is Wind and soil erosion?