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What is Topography
The shape of the land
What is a system?
A group of parts that work together as a whole
What is Condensation?
Process by which water vapor becomes liquid water
What are Dunes?
A hill of sand piled up by the wind.
What is a compound?
A substance made of two or more elements that are chemically combined in a set ratio
What is Elevation?
The height of a point above sea level on Earth's surface
What is the atmosphere?
A relatively thin envelope of gases that forms Earth's outermost layer
What is Precipitation?
Water that forms in clouds and falls to Earth as rain,snow,hail, or sleet
How many subsystems are there on Earth?(Main ones)
4
Is a bowl of nuts Heterogeneous or Homogeneous
It is Heterogeneous
Give 3 examples of Landforms
1.coastlines.2.dunes.3.mountains
What is Feedback?
The system returns or feeds back information about itself and that information results in change.
What is watershed?
Land area that supplies water to a river system.
True or False, Magma can eventually turn into rock.
True
What is Distillation?
Separating liquids by boiling them
What are constructive forces?
Forces that construct or build up land
True or False Feedback can be negative and positive
True
What are aquifers?
Layers of rock that hold water
How much ice is Iceland losing every year?
250 billion tons
What is a physical property?
A characteristic that can be observed without changing the matter into another type of matter.
True or False A mountain has low elevation and high relief
False
What is the cryosphere and biosphere
Cryosphere-Frozen component of hydrosphere
Biosphere-living organisms
What is transpiration?
Water given through leaves
True or False, California only have the highest point of elevation in the US
False
What's the Law of Conservation?
The fact that matter is not created or destroyed in any chemical or physical change.