Spheres and Stuff
The water areas of Earth. Oceans, lakes, rivers, and other bodies of water.
What is the hydrosphere?
The innermost layer of the Earth made up of super hot solid and liquid materials.
What is the core?
Molten rock located below Earth's surface.
What is magma?
Process of cracking when folded land can't bend any further.
What is faulting?
Regular movement of Earth's water from ocean to air to ground and back to the ocean.
What is the water cycle?
Uppermost layer of the Earth. Including the crust, continents, and ocean basins.
What is the lithosphere?
The thick middle layer of the Earth consisting of hot rock.
What is the Mantle?
Process in which an oceanic plate slides beneath a continental plate causing continents to grow outward.
Chemical or physical processes that break down rocks into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
The process of converting liquid into vapor or gas.
What is evaporation?
A thin layer of gases around the Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
Outer layer of the Earth that forms Earth's surface.
what is the crust?
Process by which magma pushes oceanic plates apart by seeping in between them.
what is spreading?
The movement of weathered rock and material by wind, glaciers, and moving water.
what is erosion?
The process of excess water vapor changing into liquid water when warm air cools.
What is condensation?
The part of Earth where life exists.
What is the biosphere?
The theory that the continents were once joined, but slowly drifted apart.
What is continental drift?
A bend in layers of rock caused by plate movement.
What is a fold?
Large body of ice that moves across the surface of the Earth.
What is a glacier?
Moisture that falls to Earth as rain, sleet, hail, or snow.
what is precipitation?
Part of a continent that extends out underneath the ocean.
What is the continental shelf?
The term used to describe the activities that create Earth's physical features.
What is plate tectonics?
A crack or break in Earth's crust.
What is a fault?
Piles of rocky debris left by melting glaciers.
What is a moraine?
The removal of salt from seawater to make it usable for drinking and farming.
What is desalination?