8th grade World Geography Chapter 2

Oceans lakes rivers and other bodies of water make up this part of the earth

Land makes up this part of the earth including continents and islands.

a layer of gases extending about 6000 miles above the planet surface . It includes the air we breathe

The part of the earth that supports life.

Part of a continent that extends underwater

Is a thick layer of hot dense rock

The theory that the continents were once joined  then slowly drifted apart

Thick middle layer of the earth interior structure consisting of dence hot rock

The term scientists used to describe the activities of continental drift and magma flow which create many of Earth's physical features

A process by which mountains can form as sea plate dive beneath continental plates

A process by Which new land is created when see plate apart and magma wells up between the plate

Pieces of the earth's crust come together slowly as the sea plates slides under the continental plate

a bend in layers of rock sometime caused by plate movement

A crack or break in the  Earth's crust

Water within the Earth that supplies well and springs

Fin, yellowish-brown topsoil made up of  particles of silt and Clay usually carried by Wind

Large body of ice that moves across the surface of the Earth

Piles of Rocky debris left by melting glaciers

Chemical or physical processes such as freezing that breaks down rocks

Wearing away of the earth's surface by wind flowing water or glacier

The process of excess water vapor changing into liquid water when warm air cools

The removal of salt from sea water to make it usable for drinking and farming

Regular movement of water from ocean to air to ground and back to the ocean

The process of converting into vapor

Moisture that falls to the Earth as rain sleet hail or snow

Underground water-bearing layers of Porous rock sand or gravel