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What is the Name given to collective mass of water found on under and over the surface of the earth?
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The hydrosphere, and it includes all the water on earth.
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What is the name given to a large area of level or nearly level land on earth surface?
a plateu
What portion of earth receives energy form the sun at any given time?
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Is the circumference of the earth measured around the surface or the atmosphere?
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What term is given to satellites that remain above the same point on the Earth's surface in their orbit?
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Does the surface north or south of the equator receive less heat because Earth's surface is curved?
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What is the name given to all of the collective water on earth?
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What name is given to the area of the earth that forms the land?
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What name is given to the area of the earth that forms land?
Terra firma is the name given to the Earth's dry surface.
What is the name given to flat areas given to the bumps and hollows of the earth's surface?
Topography refers to the surface features of a place or region.
What is the name given to loose material on surface of earth?
soil
What name is given to molten rock on the surface of the earth?
Lava
What is the name given to half the Earth and its water?
Half the Earth's surface, land and sea, is a "hemisphere".
What is the name given to water under Earth's surface?
This is known as groundwater.
What is the name given to something found only on Earth?
The name given to something found only one place on earth can be indigenous.It can also be endemic.
What is the name given to the point on the Earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake?
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About how many thunderstorms occur on the Earth's surface any given time?
falce
Which states contain longitude and latitude?
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