Vocab
What is the Atmosphere?
The percentage of fresh water in the Earth's water budget
What is 3%?
A feature with high elevation and a low relief.
What is a mountain?
A person drinking water
What is the biosphere and hydrosphere?
Liquid rock under the Earth's Surface
What is magma?
What is the Biosphere?
Water moving from liquid to gas on plants
A feature with high elevation and low relief
What is a plateau?
When water evaporates, it becomes part of this sphere
What is the atmosphere?
Water from liquid to gas
What is evaporation?
A collection of sediment at the end of a river
What is a delta?
What is the Cryosphere?
2 types of landforms you would find in Florida
NOT MOUNTAINS OR GLACIERS
A volcano spewing ash into the air?
What are geosphere and atmosphere?
The pattern in which magma rises, cools, breaks down, and forms new rock
What is the rock cycle?
The amount of salt is in a saltwater mixture
What is salinity?
Where most (55%) of the US drinking water is found
A map that shows elevation through contour lines
What is a topographic map?
Mr. Swick runs through mud in the rain
What are bio, geo, and hydro?
The water cycle is driven by these 2 main forces
What are heat from the sun and gravity?
Many parts working together for a single purpose
What is a system?
The lowest point of the ocean
What is Challenger Deep?
The highest point in the continental US (lower 48)
What is Mount Whitney?
List an interaction with 3 spheres
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How humans add water vapor to the air
What is respiration? (Breathing)