Earth's Spheres
Landforms
Topographic Maps
Water on Earth
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100
This sphere includes all the air surrounding Earth
What is the atmosphere?
100
A large, flat area of land with low relief and elevation is called this.
What is a plain?
100
Coastlines, mountains, deltas, dunes, etc....
What are landforms?
100
Percentage of water on Earth that is freshwater
What is 3%?
100
A force that builds up the land
What is a constructive force?
200
This sphere includes all living organisms on Earth.
What is the biosphere?
200
A landform that is formed when a river deposits sediment at its mouth, often creating a fan-shaped area
What is a delta?
200
When contour lines are very close together, this tells you the slope is _____.
What is steep?
200
A land area that supplies water to a river system.
What is a watershed?
200
The difference in elevation between the highest and lowest points in an area.
What is relief?
300
Name the sphere made of solid rock that includes Earth's crust and upper mantle
What is the geosphere?
300
A landform created by tectonic plates colliding that pushes rock upward to form high elevations and high reliefs.
What is a mountain?
300
The shape of the land (it's elevation, relief and landforms)
What is topography?
300
Water that fills the cracks and spaces in soil and rocks underground.
What is groundwater?
300
A force that wears down rock and soil over time
What is a destructive force?
400
The hydrosphere contains this.
What is all of Earth's water?
400
What is a plateau?
400
These lines on topographic maps show points of equal elevation
What are contour lines?
400
Layers of rock that hold water.
What is a aquifer?
400
The highest point above sea level.
What is elevation?
500
This sphere is part of the hydrosphere and it contains all the ice on Earth
What is the cryosphere?
500
Dunes and deltas are both made of sand. They are formed differently though. Dunes are formed by _____ and deltas are formed by ________.
What are wind and water?
500
Explain three ways that land can be explained.
What are elevation, relief and landforms?
500
What is a watershed?
500
A volcano erupting, lava flowing down and then cooling into new rock is an example of both of these.
What is destructive and constructive forces?