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Asteroid Belt Kuiper Belt (Ice and Pluto) Terrestrial planets Gas giant planets All of this is surrounded by the Oort Cloud Meteors hydrosphere • Land = lithosphere • Air = atmosphere • Life = biosphere (Now I draw) continental shelf is an underwater extension of the coastal plain • Mount Everest is the highest point of Earth • The shore of the Dead Sea is the lowest dry point on earth • The Mariana Trench is the actual lowest point on Earth an ogre • • • • Crust Mantle Outer Core Inner Core continental drift plate tectonics • Plates move because they are more or less floating on magma • Convergent (Subduction) • Divergent (Spreading) • Faulting (Transform) Iceland San Andreas Fault (California) Ring of Fire, one of the most earthquake-prone areas on the planet • Weathering: Wind and water breaks down rocks • Erosion: Wind, water, and glaciers wears away the Earth’s surface • Wind Erosion: when wind wears away the Earth’s surface • Water Erosion: when water wears away The Earth’s surface • Glacial Erosion: when glaciers wear away the Earth’s surface (+ Greenland, Antarctica) • Soil Building: Wind, temperature, rainfall, biology, etc. determine the type of soil that can develop • Rivers moving soil downstream • Worms, living and dead plants (and animals) • Etc. Condensation: Warm air cools, water vapor changes into liquid water Evaporation: liquid water changes into vapor, or gas Precipitation: when clouds gather more water than they can hold, it rains, snows, or sleet • • • • • Pacific Atlantic Indian Arctic Southern (Might as well be called the Antarctic Ocean) • Mediterranean Sea is almost entirely encircled by southern Europe • Gulf of Mexico is nearly encircled by the coasts of the USA and Mexico (and the orange circles) • Desalination: • Groundwater • Aquifer
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