The -spheres
The covering of the air is known as what?
Atmosphere
The thin outer “skin” is called the what?
The Crust
The name Pangae means what?
Entire Earth
What are the three major bodies of water?
Oceans/Seas, Rivers, and Lakes
Most farmers produce only enough food to meet the needs of their own households. What is this called?
Subsistence Farming
The earth’s crust and the section of the upper mantle that moves with the tectonic plates is known as the what?
Lithosphere
The portion of the earth’s interior lying between the crust and the core is called the what?
The Mantle
What are deep cracks in the earth’s surface where two pieces of land have moved in different directions?
Faults
The main river and all its tributaries are called?
River System
What is the second main form of agriculture?
Animal husbandry
All the water on the earth’s surface, underground and in the air is known as what?
Hydrosphere
Shaking, trembling. Or concussion of the earth due to subterranean causes. This is the definition for the which vocabulary word?
Earthquakes
The greatest land displacement ever recorded was recorded where?
Alaska
Plateaus are often called what because they are elevated like a tabletop?
Tablelands
What are the three verbs that exemplify man’s job and relation to creation?
Tend, care, and rule
What consists of all the different areas on earth where life can exist and the living organisms that live there?
Biosphere
What is the process of convection?
As material heats up, it rises. Then it cools and falls.
As the plate moves over the hot spot, what is created?
An island
The tectonic process by which the relatively thin and dense oceanic crust slowly slides down and under the more massive but less dense continental crust is called?
Subduction
At the end of the eighteenth century, an agricultural revolution took place and then spread to the U.S?
Great Britain
Fish, algae, fungi, plants, insects, arachnids, animals, and human beings help to make up what?
Biosphere
The molten rock in the earth’s mantle. This is known as?
Magma
What are the two external factors that shape the earth? How?
Weathering and Erosion. Weathering results in the breaking down of rocks and erosion is the process of them moving
Geographers rank river systems by comparing various features. Name 2 out of 4.
Length, Discharge, Drainage Area, and Navigability
What is an alloy?
a metal made by combining two or more metallic elements