Earths landmasses Flashcards
FtA continent that contains 48 countries in total
Asia
Largest landmasses on earth
Continents
A continent that Contains 54 countries
Africa
A continent with 23 countries
North America
A continent with less than 5000 human population
Antarctica
A continent that is considered to be an “island continent” as it is also a country of itself.
Australia
A continent with 51 countries
Europe
Hottest continent
Africa
These are materials that can be used to support life and at the same time, provide energy for living things to work.
Natural resources
Is a closed system, meaning it can sustain as long as materials are recycled.
Biosphere
The rigid of outer parts of Earth
Lithosphere
Total amount of water on a planet.
Hydrosphere
Where living things come to ineract on eachother.
Ecosystem
Process on which we use and manage Earth’s resources suitably.
Conservation
Maintaining the present state on condition of areas which is not disturbed by human activities.
Preservation
Largest sea
Pacific ocean
The percentage of hydrosphere in Earth.
71%
Is the amount of salt dissolves on water.
Salinity
The most abundant salt that dissolves on the ocean.
Sodium chloride
Is a body of water flowing through a permanent channel that begins in an elevated area and usually ends in a sea or lake.
Stream
A stream steep slope or water is fast flowing.
Rapid
Is a permanent body of flowing water.
River
Are small channels of running water which may or may not be permanent.
Brooks, creeks, rivulets
Water the eastward in less saturates the area . Is also the water-filled.
Groundwater
The water reaches and saturates an impermeable layer of soil containing gravel sand and silt.
Aquifer
It has about 97% of the water area and are oceans and seas.
Seawater
Is a land area where all the water coming from various sources drain off.
Watershed
Is defined as the over fertilization of water with nutrients.
Eutrophication
Different materials used by humans and other living things come from the ______
Lithosphere
Rocks that undergo chemical changes due to heat and pressure within earth’s interior forming this type of rock.
Metamorphic rocks
Is a form of sediment composed mostly of large quantities of plant remains.
Peat
Percentage of oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide and others.
Nitrogen 78%, oxygen 21% others 1%
A phenomenon that heats up the earth making it warm.
Greenhouse effect
Large geographical areas.
Biomes
4 categories of human consumption of water
Domestic, agriculture, industrial, stream consumption
Are those that can be used readily and can be produced or regenerated repeatedly.
Renewable resources
I will said can have existed and cannot be generated easily.
Non-renewable resources
Is the root cause of natural resources depletion.
Mismanagement
Our deep zone of ocean or lake that doesn’t receive light.
Aphotic
A body of water that is disturbed by human activities.
Eutrophic
A body of water that is undisturbed by human activities.
Oligotrophic
Is a continuous direct movement of seawater.
Ocean currents
Operation of water mass that receives a maximum heat from the sun.
Photic zone
Also known as twilight layer.
Disphotic zone
