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