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28 Cards in this Set
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Hydrosphere
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oceans, lakes, rivers, and other bodies of water
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Lithosphere
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the earth's crust
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atmosphere
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a layer of gases extending above the planet's surface
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Biosphere
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Earth that supports life
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Eurasia
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one land mass that includes Europe and Aisa
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Isthmus of Panama
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links North and South America
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Sinai Peninsula
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the human made Suez canal that seperates Africa and Asia
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Continental Shelf
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an underwater extension of the costal plain
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Mount everest
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The highest point of Earth in South Asia in napal
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Dead Sea
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The lowest dry land point in south west Asia
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Mariana Trench
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Earth's deepest known depression lies under the pacific ocean south west of Guam is a narrow underwater canyon
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core
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the very center of the planet that is very hot but has a solid inner core
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mantle
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next to the outer core is a think layer of hot dense rock
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crust
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the outer layer that is a rocky shell froming the Earth's surface
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continental drift
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the theory that the continets were once joined and then slowly drifted apart
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plate tectonics
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referst to all of the physical processes that create many of the Earth's physical features
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folds
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bends in layers of rock
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faults
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when plates grind or slide past each other, creating cracks in the Earth's crust
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weathering
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breaks down rocks
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Eriosion
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wears away the Earth's surface by wind, glaciers, and moving water
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Glaciers
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a couse of erosion that is a large body of ice that moves across the Earth's surface
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moraines
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when glaciers melt and recede they leave behind large piles of rocks and debries
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Water cycle
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the name given to this regular movement of water
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Evaporation
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changing of liquid water into vapor, or gas
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Condensation
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when warm air cools, it cannot retain all of its water vapor, so the excess water vapor changes into liquid water
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precipitation
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when clouds gather more water than they can hold, they relase moisture, which falls to the Earth
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Pacific
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the larges of the oceans, it covers more area than all Earht's land combined
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pacific, atlantic, Indian and arctic
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Geographers divide the enormous body of water that circles the Earth into 5 parts (including Mediterranean sea)
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