Planet Earth Vocabulary

Water that occurs in the air as invisible gas

• precipitation
• condensation
• water vapor
• water cycle

Physical  shapes on the Earth's surface

• landforms
• weathering
• plates
• isthmus

The sun and all of the objects that move around it

• geosphere
• orbit
• equinox
• solar system

A path around an object

• rotation
• orbit
• solstice
• satellite

The circulation from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back

• water cycle
• tributary
• water vapor
• evaporation

A nearly flat area of land

• plateau
• mesa
• isthmus
• plain

A body that orbits a larger body

• lithospere
• satellite
• axis
• revolution

This occurs when the sun's energy heats water on the Earth's surface

• condensation
• evaporation
• precipitation
• water cycle

An elevated flatland

• plain
• isthmus
• peninsula
• plateau

An imaginary line that runs from the North Pole through the Earth's center to the South Pole

• axis
• tropic of cancer
• revolution
• equator