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Water on Earth
Earth's Landforms
Mapping Earth
Earth's Layers
100
This is about how much of the earth is covered with water.
What is 75%?
100
This landform rises more than 2,000 feet above surrounding land.
What is a mountain?
100
These lines show locations east or west of the prime meridian.
What are longitude lines?
100
These are the four main layers of the earth.
What are the inner core, outer core, mantle and crust?
200
This is the type of water that mainly covers the earth.
What is saltwater?
200
This landform is large and very flat.
What is a plain?
200
This word describes a location's height above or below sea level.
What is elevation?
200
This is the solid layer at the very center of the earth.
What is the inner core?
300
Most of earth's fresh water is found in this form.
What is ice?
300
A river flows into this type of landform.
What is a basin?
300
This type of map shows a bird's eye view of elevation.
What is a topographic map?
300
This layer contains the continents and ocean floor. It is the thinnest layer.
What is the crust?
400
This term describes how much salt is dissolved in water.
What is salinity?
400
This landform is a flat, raised area that formed when forces inside Earth lifted up a layer of rock.
What is a plateau?
400
Contour lines on a map show this.
What is elevation? (They connect places on the map with the same elevation.)
400
This layer of the earth is described as being like Silly Putty.
What is the mantle?
500
This is the part of Earth that contains water.
What is the hydrosphere?
500
This landform is formed when a plateau is worn away by wind and/or water.
What is a butte or a mesa?
500
Contour lines that are spaced closer together tell you this about a hill.
What is that the hill is steep?
500
This is the word used to describe the crust and the upper, rigid part of the mantle.
What is the lithosphere?