Earth's Spheres
Made up of all the water on Earth.
What is the hydrosphere?
The first layer of the Earth.
What is the crust?
Open regions that are dominated by grass and have a warm, dry climate.
What is a grassland?
What is a group of mountains that are close in shape and structure.
What is a mountain range?
A flat model of all or part of Earth’s surface as seen from above
What is a map?
Made up of all the rocks and minerals on Earth.
What is the geosphere?
The second layer of the Earth.
What is the mantle?
Area dominated by trees, and contain most of the world’s insects, birds, and mammals.
What is a forest?
The shape of the land that includes the area’s elevation, relief, and landforms.
What is topography?
A sphere that represents Earth’s entire surface.
What is a globe?
Made up of all the life on Earth.
What is the biosphere?
The third layer of the Earth.
What is the outer core?
A vast, flat, treeless cold region.
What is a tundra?
The height above sea level.
What is elevation?
Differences in degrees from either the equator or prime meridian.
What is latitude and longitude?
Made up of all the gasses and air on Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
The fourth layer of the Earth.
What is the inner core?
Large areas on Earth that have the same climate.
What is a biome?
The difference between the highest elevation and the lowest elevation in an area.
What is relief?
An imaginary line between the North and South Poles dividing the Earth into Northern and Southern hemispheres
What is the equator?
Describe how two or more of the spheres interact
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The solid outer section of the Earth, which includes the crust and rigid upper part of the mantle.
What is the lithosphere?
The type of average weather and temperature for an area.
What is climate?
A large area of land that is made up of one type of landform.
What is a landform region?
An imaginary line connecting North and South poles dividing Earth into Western and Eastern hemispheres
What is the prime meridian?