science vo-cab
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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crust | a thin layer of relatively cool rock that forms Earths outer skin.
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feedback loop | sometimes an event is both a cause, or input, and an effect, or output, in the same system, a cyclical process.
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erosion | the removal of soil by water, wind, ice, or gravity, can lead to a positive feedback loop.
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geosphere | is made of all the rock at and below Earth's surface.
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lithosphere | is the hard rock on and just below Earth's surface.
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biosphere | consists of all the planet's living or once-living things and the nonliving parts of the environment with which they interact.
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atmosphere | consists of the layers of gases surounding our planet.
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hydrosphere | encompasses all water-salt, fresh, liquid, ice, and vapor-on Earth's surface, underground, and in the atmosphere.
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mantle | layer of very hot but mostly solid rock.
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core | beneath the lower mantle.
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tectonic plates | as the asthenosphere moves, it drags along large plates of lithosphere called ________.
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landform | features such as mountains (above and beneath the ocean's surface), island, and continents.
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deposition | the depositing of eroded soil at a new location.
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evaporation | the conversion of a substance from a liquid to a gas.
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transpiration | the release of water vapor by plants through their leaves.
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precipitation | water returns from the atmosphere to earth's surface.
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condensation | a change in state from a gas to a liquid.
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aquifers | precipitation soaks down through soil and rock to recharge underground reservoirs.
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groundwater | fresh water found underground.
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