EARTH
Represents the solid, rocky part of the Earth, including the core, mantle, and crust, along with landforms like mountains, valleys, and soil
What is the geosphere?
The sun heats water in oceans, lakes, and rivers, turning it from liquid into gas (water vapor)
What is evaporation?
A group of people from one country who build a settlement in another land.
What is a colony?
Encompasses all water on Earth in all its states—liquid (oceans, lakes, rivers), solid (icebergs, glaciers), and gas (water vapor)
What is the hydrosphere?
As water vapor rises, it cools and turns back into liquid droplets, forming clouds.
What is condensation?
Sometimes also called a legend. These use symbols, colors, or lines to represent important places or landmarks on a map.
What is a map key?
The layer of gases surrounding the Earth, extending from just below the surface to over 10,000 kilometers above it. It contains the air necessary for life and is composed of five primary layers.
What is the atmosphere?
Water falls back to the Earth from clouds as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
What is precipitation?
The first 13 colonies, located on the East coast are separated into these three regions.
What are New England, Middle, and Southern Regions?
Comprised of all living organisms, including plants, animals, and microorganisms, which occupy, live, and interact within the other three spheres.
What is the biosphere?
Water travels across land as into bodies of water or soaks into the ground, becoming groundwater
What is runoff and infiltration?
The four main points on a compass. (North, South East, and West)
What are cardinal directions?