Earth and Space Science Diagrams: Rivers, Volcanoes, Weather and Stars

From the source of a river to the main sequence of stars, each drawing can be quizzed on screen or printed blank for class.

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Rivers, mountains and maps of the land 26

The shapes water and ice leave on the land: a river from source to delta, its watershed, a lake, a beach and the ocean floor, a mountain, a landscape of landforms to label, a topographic map of the same forms, the zones of the ocean, a soil profile, the layers of a rainforest, and a landfill cut through.

Parts of a RiverA river from mountain spring to delta: 18 parts to find or name, the 10 main parts for younger grades, upper, middle and lower course groups, and two prints. Meander · Delta · Point bar
Parts of a MountainA mountain range from the valley: 12 numbered landforms, from the summit, ridge and pass to the cirque, glacier, arête, spur and foothills. Ridge · Summit · Pass
Watershed Diagram LabeledA watershed from above and in a slice: 11 numbered parts, from the drainage divide, main river and tributaries to the outlet, runoff and groundwater. Tributaries · Reservoir · Drainage divide
Topographic Map WorksheetA practice topographic map: 8 numbered features, from contour lines, the index contour and interval to steep and gentle slopes, a stream and a depression. Hilltop · Contour line · Gentle slope
Parts of a Forest: The Rainforest LayersA rainforest in side view: emergent layer, canopy, understory and forest floor, with a liana, an epiphyte and buttress roots.
Parts of a Lake: Zones and LayersA lake in cross-section: littoral, limnetic, profundal and benthic zones, inflow and outflow, and the three summer layers.
Parts of a Beach: The Beach ProfileA sandy beach in profile: dune, berm, berm crest, beach face, swash, longshore trough and bar, and the two tide lines.
Parts of a Sanitary LandfillClay liner, geomembrane, leachate pipe, compacted waste, daily cover, final cover, gas wells, flare and the groundwater below.
Label Landforms WorksheetAn invented landscape to label: mountain, hill, valley, plain, plateau, canyon, volcano, lake, river, island, peninsula, cape, bay, isthmus and delta.
Labeling the Ocean FloorAn ocean basin in side view with 10 features to find or name, from the continental shelf and abyssal plain to the mid-ocean ridge, trench and island arc.
Ocean Zones Diagram: From the Shore and by DepthThe sea in cross-section: intertidal, neritic, oceanic and benthic zones, then five layers by depth with the photic and aphotic zones.
Soil Profile Diagram: Label the HorizonsA block of ground cut straight down: the O, A, E, B and C horizons, bedrock, the roots of a tree and brackets for the solum and the profile.
Glacial Landforms DiagramA glaciated valley to label: cirque, arête, horn, U-shaped valley, hanging valley and tarn, then the moraines, drumlins, esker, kettle lake, erratic and outwash plain.
Parts of an AquiferA hillside cut open: unsaturated zone, water table, unconfined and confined aquifer, confining layer, three wells, a spring, a stream and recharge.
Identify Terrain Features on a Map QuizA contour map quiz: name the hill, saddle, valley, ridge, depression, draw, spur, cliff, cut and fill from the pattern of their contour lines.
Glacier Diagram LabeledA valley glacier cut open to label: accumulation and ablation zones, equilibrium line, firn, bergschrund, icefall, crevasses, three moraines and the snout.
Ocean Wave Diagram LabeledA wave in deep water and waves reaching a beach: crest, trough, wavelength, wave height, orbital motion, wave base, swell, breaker, surf zone, swash and backwash.
Tsunami Labeled DiagramA tsunami in three drawings: the fault and the uplifted sea floor out at sea, the wave growing near shore, and run-up and inundation on land.
Coral Reef Diagram Labeled: Zones and Kinds of ReefA reef cut through from an island to deep water: lagoon, reef flat, reef crest, fore reef and drop-off. Then a fringing reef, a barrier reef and an atoll.
Labeling a Coral ReefA coral reef as a worksheet: six numbers across a reef from lagoon to drop-off, four on the kinds of reef, a line for each name, and a key.
Cave Formations Labeled: Stalactites, Stalagmites and SpeleothemsA limestone cave cut open: stalactites, stalagmites, a column, soda straws, flowstone and a drapery, then helictites, cave pearls and cave popcorn.
Diagram of Watershed No LabelsThe watershed drawing with nothing written on it, to print and fill in: a map from above and a slice across the valley, with its answer key. Drainage divide · Watershed · Precipitation
Ocean Zones Diagram No LabelsThe ocean zones drawing with no zone named, to print and fill in: five names from the shore out, eight by depth and by light, with its answer key.
Blank Ocean Wave Diagram to LabelThe ocean wave drawing with nothing written on it, to print and fill in: seven parts of a wave in deep water and five where waves reach a beach, with its answer key.
Unlabeled Landfill DiagramThe landfill drawing with nothing written on it, to print and fill in: liner, leachate pipe, waste, covers, gas wells and flare, with its answer key.
Unlabeled Aquifer DiagramThe aquifer drawing with nothing written on it, to print and fill in: the water table, two aquifers, the confining layer, three wells, a spring and a stream, with its answer key.

Inside the Earth: rocks, volcanoes and plates 17

What lies under the surface and how it reaches it: the layers from crust to inner core, a volcano cut in half, an earthquake from its focus to the seismograph that records it, that seismograph part by part, Earth's magnetic field, the continents fitted together as Pangaea, and the geologic time scale.

Label the Layers of the EarthThe Earth cut across, crust to inner core, and a close-up of continental and oceanic crust, the Moho, lithosphere and asthenosphere. Inner core · Asthenosphere · Oceanic crust
Volcano Diagram LabeledA volcano cut in half: magma chamber, conduit, main and side vents, crater, lava flow, ash cloud, layers, dike and sill. Main vent · Side vent · Conduit
Parts of an EarthquakeFocus, epicenter, fault, fault scarp, hanging wall, footwall, seismic waves and a seismograph, then P waves, S waves and surface waves on its record.
Geologic Time Scale WorksheetsName the eons, eras, periods and epochs on a blank geologic time scale, and say when each began. Holocene · Paleozoic · Carboniferous
Continental Drift WorksheetToday's continents inside Pangaea, Laurasia, Gondwana and the Tethys Sea, then the fossil bands of Wegener's evidence.
Earth's Magnetic Field DiagramEarth's magnetic field in two scenes: axes, poles, field lines and outer core, then the solar wind, magnetosphere, magnetotail and radiation belts.
Parts of a SeismographA simple seismograph: a frame on a base, a heavy mass on a spring, a pen, a rotating drum and the seismogram.
Convergent-Margin Orogen DiagramTwo cross-sections of a mountain belt to label: trench, accretionary wedge, forearc basin, volcanic arc and plutons, then suture, crustal root, thrust faults and accreted terrane.
Plate Boundaries DiagramDivergent, convergent and transform boundaries drawn one at a time, with the mid-ocean ridge, rift valley, subduction zone, trench, volcanic arc, lithosphere and asthenosphere.
Upwarped Mountains Labeled DiagramsUpwarped (dome), folded, fault-block and volcanic mountains cut through, with the core, tilted layers, anticline, syncline, normal fault, horst, graben and vent to label.
Rock Layers LabeledSix flat rock layers from oldest to youngest with a fossil in one, then a second block with a fold, tilted layers, a fault, an igneous intrusion, an unconformity and a lava flow.
How Fossils Form DiagramSeven steps from a fish on the sea floor to a fossil at the surface: death, decay, burial, more layers, rock, minerals and erosion, with a mold and a cast of a shell.
Silicon-Oxygen Tetrahedron DiagramA silicon-oxygen tetrahedron as a ball-and-stick model and as a solid, then isolated and double tetrahedra, a ring, single and double chains, a sheet and a framework.
Earth's History as a ClockEarth's history squeezed into one day: the Hadean, Archean, Proterozoic and Phanerozoic around the rim, the three eras of the last three hours, and eleven key events as marks.
Types of Faults DiagramNormal, reverse, thrust and strike-slip faults drawn as blocks of layered rock, with the hanging wall, footwall, fault scarp, dip, fault trace and the stress behind each.
Earth's Layers No LabelsThe layers of the Earth drawing with nothing written on it, to print and fill in: the planet cut in half and a close-up of the crust at a coast, with its answer key. Inner core · Moho · Lower mantle
Earthquake Diagram Without LabelsThe earthquake drawing with nothing written on it, to print and fill in: a block of ground cut open along a fault, the record of the shaking, and an answer key.

Weather, air and climate 16

The atmosphere from the ground up: its layers, the cloud types, the three wind cells in each hemisphere, the inside of a hurricane, an ordinary thunderstorm in three stages and a supercell, then the greenhouse effect and the albedo effect.

Hadley Cell DiagramThe three-cell model: Hadley, Ferrel and polar cells, the trade winds, westerlies and polar easterlies, pressure belts and jet streams. Hadley cell · Subtropical jet · Trade winds
Parts of a HurricaneA hurricane cut through: the eye, eyewall and rainbands, with arrows for the inflow, rising air, outflow and sinking air over a warm ocean. Rising air · Rainbands · Inflow
Label the Layers of the AtmosphereFive stacked bands from the troposphere to the exosphere, with the ozone layer, the four pauses and their heights.
Cloud Types QuizA sky chart of the ten basic clouds, cirrus to cumulonimbus, drawn in their high, middle and low bands.
Parts of a SupercellA supercell from the side: anvil, overshooting top, updraft, mesocyclone, wall cloud, flanking line and two downdrafts.
Greenhouse Effect DiagramThe greenhouse effect on one strip of land and sea: sunlight in, sunlight reflected, heat from the surface, greenhouse gases and heat sent back.
Parts of a ThunderstormA thunderstorm at its three stages: updraft, downdraft, anvil, overshooting top, gust front, shelf cloud, heavy rain, hail and lightning.
Albedo Effect DiagramSunlight reflected and absorbed by snow, sea ice, open ocean and forest, then the four steps of the ice-albedo feedback loop.
Land and Sea Breeze Diagram WorksheetA coast by day and at night to label: the sea breeze and the land breeze, rising and sinking air, high and low pressure and the return flow aloft.
Climate Diagram QuizThe parts of a climate diagram on one large graph, then seven small graphs to match to a tropical rainforest, desert, chaparral, grassland, deciduous forest, boreal forest and tundra.
Skew T Diagram LabeledA skew-T log-P chart to label: isobars, isotherms, dry and moist adiabats, mixing ratio lines, and a made-up sounding with its LCL, LFC, EL, CAPE, CIN and an inversion.
Tornado Diagram With LabelsA tornado under its storm: funnel, debris cloud, wall cloud, tail cloud, mesocyclone, inflow and rear flank downdraft, then wind shear, the updraft and a funnel cloud.
Lake Effect Snow Labeled DiagramA lake in cross-section with the wind blowing across it: cold air, warm water, rising heat and moisture, clouds, the snow band, fetch, the downwind shore and the snowbelt.
Skew T Diagram QuizA quiz from the first screen on the skew-T chart: find the five sets of lines on a blank chart, then the traces, levels, CAPE and CIN on a practice sounding.
Blank Hadley Cell DiagramThe Hadley cell drawing with nothing written on it, to print and fill in: three cells, three surface winds, three pressure belts and two jets, with its answer key. Subtropical jet · ITCZ · Ferrel cell
The Greenhouse Effect Diagram No LabelsThe greenhouse effect drawing with nothing written on it, to print and fill in: the Sun, three sunlight arrows, three heat arrows, the gases, the air and the surface, with its answer key.

Cycles and food chains 12

Drawings made of arrows as much as things: how water, carbon and nitrogen move between air, land, sea and living things, and how energy passes along a food chain and up an energy pyramid.

Rock Cycle Diagram LabeledThe rock cycle: magma, igneous rock, sediment, sedimentary rock and metamorphic rock, joined by arrows for the five processes between them.
Label the Water CycleA mountain-to-sea landscape: evaporation, condensation, precipitation and collection, then runoff, infiltration, groundwater flow and more. Transpiration · Precipitation · Surface runoff
Nitrogen Cycle Diagram LabeledAir above, soil below: follow nitrogen from the atmosphere into a plant and back. Lightning · Assimilation · Denitrification
Parts of a Food ChainA grassland food chain from the sun to a hawk, with each role to name, and a food web of eight living things.
Energy Pyramid DiagramAn energy pyramid of four tiers with its energy and heat arrows, then pyramids of energy, biomass and numbers side by side.
Energy Flow in an Ecosystem DiagramOne meadow drawn twice: energy flowing through it as light, chemical energy and heat, then chemicals cycling between living things, the soil and the air.
Population Growth Curves LabeledTwo graphs of population growth to tell apart, exponential and logistic, then one S-shaped curve with carrying capacity and four stretches to place.
Ocean Food Web With LabelsAn open-ocean food web from phytoplankton to the orca: twelve living things to name, with an arrow from each one to whatever eats it.
Age Structure Diagram WorksheetA population drawn by age and sex: males, females, the two scales and three age bands, then the shapes of rapid, slow, zero and negative growth.
Rock Cycle Diagram QuizA quiz from the first screen on the rock cycle drawing: find magma, igneous rock, sediment, sedimentary rock and metamorphic rock, and the five processes drawn as arrows.
Energy Pyramid QuizA quiz from the first screen on the energy pyramid drawing: find the four trophic levels, the energy passed up, the energy lost as heat, autotrophs, heterotrophs and three kinds of pyramid.
Age Structure Diagram QuizA quiz from the first screen on age structure diagrams: find the two sides, the two scales and the three age bands, then the shapes of rapid, slow, zero and negative growth.

Sun, Moon and stars 20

The solar system, the Sun, the phases and the near side of the Moon, a comet and a satellite, solar and lunar eclipses side by side, the life cycle of a star, the HR diagram and the Milky Way.

Label the Solar SystemThe Sun, 8 planets, the Moon, the asteroid and Kuiper belts, Pluto and a comet to find on one drawing.
HR Diagram WorksheetA Hertzsprung-Russell diagram: 7 numbered parts, the main sequence, the Sun, giants, supergiants and white dwarfs, and the two axes. White dwarfs · Luminosity · Temperature
Solar Eclipse Diagram LabeledA solar and a lunar eclipse side-on: 6 numbered parts, the Sun, Moon and Earth, the umbra, the penumbra and the path of totality. Path of totality · Moon · Sun
Label the Layers of the SunCore, radiative zone, convective zone, photosphere, chromosphere and corona, with sunspots, a prominence and a solar flare.
Parts of a SatelliteA satellite above the Earth: bus, solar panels, antenna, camera, thrusters, star tracker, thermal blanket, battery and reaction wheel.
Label the Parts of a CometA comet near the Sun: nucleus, coma, jets, a straight ion tail and a curved dust tail, on its orbit.
Near Side of the Moon LabeledThe near side of the Moon with twenty named places: ten seas, seven craters, two mountain ranges and the Apollo 11 landing site.
Label the Life Cycle of a StarThe life cycle of a star as a flow with one fork: 10 stages to find or name, from nebula and protostar to white dwarf, neutron star and black hole.
Draw and Label the Phases of the MoonThe eight phases as seen from the Northern Hemisphere, with waxing and waning marked, and a second view of the Moon's orbit with sunlight from one side.
Label the Parts of the Milky Way GalaxyThe Milky Way face-on and edge-on: galactic center, bar, four arms, the Orion Spur with the Sun, the disk, the bulge, the halo and its globular clusters.
Black Hole Diagram LabeledA black hole to label: event horizon, singularity, accretion disk and jets, then the photon sphere, the shadow, the corona and Doppler beaming.
Atmospheric Layers of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and NeptuneFour charts to label, one for each giant planet: the troposphere, stratosphere and thermosphere, with the cloud decks of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
Jupiter LabeledJupiter in three views: the Great Red Spot with the belts and zones, the layers inside from the clouds to the core, and Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto with the rings.
Mars Labeled MapA flat map of Mars with twenty-one named places: Olympus Mons and five more volcanoes, Valles Marineris, the polar caps, nine plains and three landing sites.
Blank Map of the MoonThe Moon map with nothing written on it, to print and fill in: ten seas, seven craters, two mountain ranges and the Apollo 11 landing site, with its answer key.
Blank Map of MarsThe Mars map with nothing written on it, to print and fill in: six volcanoes, Valles Marineris, the two polar caps, nine plains and three landing sites, with its answer key.
Unlabeled Eclipse DiagramThe eclipse drawing with nothing written on it, to print and fill in: a solar eclipse above, a lunar eclipse below, six names and an answer key. Path of totality · Umbra · Earth
Blank Milky Way Galaxy MapThe Milky Way drawing with nothing written on it, to print and fill in: the bar and spiral arms from above, the disk, bulge and halo from the side, with its answer key.
Moon Map QuizA quiz from the first screen on the map of the Moon's near side: find ten seas, seven craters, two mountain ranges and the Apollo 11 landing site.
Mars Map QuizA quiz from the first screen on the flat map of Mars: find five landmarks, five more volcanoes, eight more plains, two craters and the Viking 1 landing site.

Earth science is taught through a small set of drawings that come back every year: the river from source to mouth, the volcano cut in half, the water cycle, the rock cycle, the layers inside the Earth and the chart astronomers use to sort stars. Each page is one of those drawings with a numbered ring on every part.

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Open Study to read each name with a line on what the part is or does. Then switch to Find it or Name it, and the parts you miss come back at the end of the round.

Teachers mostly use the two prints, the blank drawing for the class and the labeled one as the key. The worksheet pages, such as the topographic map and the weather map, open on the printable sheet. Names were checked against United States science agencies and open textbooks on the date each page shows.

Rivers, mountains and maps of the land 26

Inside the Earth: rocks, volcanoes and plates 17

Weather, air and climate 16

Cycles and food chains 12

Sun, Moon and stars 20

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