vocab (2) world cultures

The watery areas of the earth including oceans,lakes rivers and other bodies of water.

• subduction

• continental shelf

• hydrosphere

• atmosphere

upper most layer of the earth that includes the crust continents and ocean basins

• lithosphere

• accretion

• plate tectonics

• biosphere

The term scientist use to describe the activities of continental drift and magma flow, which create many of earth's physical features.

• desalination

• ground water

• continental droft

• Plate tectonicts

regular movement of earths water from ocean to air to ground and back to ocean.

• precipitation

• ground water

• water cycle

• condensation

A thin layer of glasses that surrounds the earth

• accretion

• biosphere

• Atmosphere

• hydrosphere

The process of converting liquid into gas

• evaporation

• precipitation

• ground water

• desalination

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

• water cycle

• condensation

• biosphere

• lithosphere

the part of the earth where life exist

• subduction

• lithosphere

• atmosphere

• biosphere

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

• continental shelf

• continental drift

• plate tectonics

• accretion

part of a continent that extends out underneath the ocean

• hydrosphere

• desalination

• continental shelf

• atmosphere