Earth's Spheres
What is the atmosphere?
This is the theory that all of the Earth's landmass broke apart and moved to different areas of the planet.
What is the continental drift theory?
This is the point directly above the focus on the earth's surface where where an earthquake occurs.
What is an epicenter?
This is the percentage of Earth that is covered in water.
What is 71%?
What is a landform?
This is the solid rock portion of the Earth's surface.
What is the lithosphere?
These are enormous moving pieces of the Earth's lithosphere constantly in motion.
What are the the tectonic plates?
This is a special device that measures the size of waves created by an earthquake.
What is a seismograph?
This is the continuous circulation of water between the atmosphere, the oceans, and the earth.
What is the hydrologic cycle?
The combination of characteristics of the landforms and their distribution in a region.
What is topography?
This is the water portion of Earth, which includes all bodies of water including: lakes, oceans, and rivers.
What is the hydrosphere?
This was the large land mass that the first continent.
What was Pangea?
This is an area where there is a fracture in the earth's crust caused by pressures exerted by plate tectonic movement.
What is a fault?
This is what the geographers call an area drained by a major river and its tributaries.
What is a drainage basin?
The difference in elevation of a landform from the lowest point to highest point.
What is relief?
This is the part of Earth where plants and animals live.
What is the biosphere?
This zone around the rim of the Pacific Ocean is the location of the vast majority of volcanoes.
What is the ring of fire?
This molten rock rises through the Earth's crust sometimes when earthquakes and volcanoes occur.
What is magma?
This is water that is held in the pores of rock.
What is ground water?
The Earth's surface from the edge of a continent to the edge of the deep part of the ocean.
What is the continental shelf?
List the three main layers of the lithosphere in order from surface to the inside of the Earth.
What are the crust, mantle, and core?
This is the largest tectonic plate.
What are: divergent, convergent, and transformative boundaries?
The level at which the rock is saturated.
What is the water table?