Vocabulary
What is topography, what can Land be described using?
Topography is the shape of land. Land can be described using elevation, relief, and landforms.
What is a water cycle?
the continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back again.
What is an example of feedback?
When the warmer air makes glaciers melt even faster.
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What is the biosphere?
The parts of Earth that contain all living organisms.
What are four invertebrates from the ocean?
Annelida, Mollusks, Comb jellies, and Cnidaria.
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What is a landform?
Features such as coastlines, dunes, and mountains.
What is evaporation?
the process by which molecules at the surface of a liquid absorb enough energy to change to a gas.
What is feedback?
The system returns, or feeds back, information about itself, and that information results in change.
What is the hydrosphere?
All of Earth's mass is in the form of rock and metal.
What are four vertebrates from land?
Fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.
What is a mountain?
A landform with both high elevation and high relief.
What is an example of water evaporating from your skin.
sweat
What is negative feedback?
the process to slow down, or go in reverse.
What is the cryosphere?
the frozen components of the hydrosphere.
What is Potential energy?
Energy that results from the position or shape of an object.
What is a coastline?
The boundary between the land and the ocean or a lake.
What is transpiration?
When water vapor is given off through the leaves in a process.
What is positive feedback?
a reinforcement, sped up, or an enhanced process that's already underway.
What is the atmosphere?
a relatively thin envelope of gases that forms Earth's outermost layer.
What are vertebrates?
An animal of a large group distinguished by the possession of a backbone of spinal column.
What happens in surveying?
Mapmakers determine distances and elevations using instruments and the principles of geometry.
What are the main features of the ocean floor?
seamounts, trenches, continental shelves, continental slopes, abyssal plains, and mid-ocean ridges.
What is an example of positive feedback?
melting glaciers and change
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What is the atmosphere made up of?
made of air - a mixture of gases including nitrogen, oxygen, water vapor, and carbon dioxide - and dust particles.
What are invertebrates?
An animal lacking a backbone.