LT 3.1: Hydrosphere
The return of water from the atmosphere to the surface/ground.
What is precipitation?
A sudden and violent shaking of the ground due to two plates rubbing together.
All of the gases in and around Earth.
what is the atmosphere?
A river breaking apart a rock.
What is the hydrosphere and lithosphere?
Water going from a gas to a liquid
Water vapor being released from plants into the atmosphere
What is Transpiration?
A large natural elevation of earth's surface. When tectonic plates move into each other.
What is a mountain?
The trapping of the sun and earth's warmth on a planet. Causes the planet to warm quicker than it should.
what is the Greenhouse Effect?
A human taking a deep breath of oxygen.
What is the atmosphere and biosphere?
The transportation of broken down sediments by wind, water, etc.
What is erosion?
All of the water that exists on Earth.
What is the Hydrosphere?
The rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.
What is the lithosphere?
Weather conditions that exist in a place over a long period of time.
Wind breaking and transporting pieces of a rock formation.
what is the atmosphere and lithosphere?
The breakdown of rock by wind, water, etc.
What is weathering?
Water being absorbed (filtered) into the ground.
What is infiltration?
An elevated area that has a crater/vent through which molten rock erupts through. When tectonic plates move apart.
What is a volcano?
The state of the atmosphere in a particular area at a specific place and time.
what is weather?
Water evaporating up in the air
Large slabs of rock that make up the Earth's crust.
What are tectonic plates?
What is a watershed?
The point where two or more tectonic plates meet.
What is a plate boundary?
A gradual increase in overall temperature of the earth's atmosphere (sped up by pollution).
What is Global Warming?
Roots of a plant breaking into the rocks below
what is the biosphere and lithosphere?
Water traveling on the surface from a higher elevation to a lower elevation.
What is surface runoff?