Earth movement
Seasons
Water
Earth plates
Vocabulary
100
All life on Earth needs energy from this to survive.
What is the sun
100
True or false. Earth is closest to the sun during the summer.
What is false
100
This substance covers about 70% of the Earth's surface.
What is salt water?
100
This comes out of volcanoes and ridges between plates.
What is lava?
100
The movement of water from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back.
What is the water cycle?
200
One revolution or orbit around the sun takes this long.
What is 365 1/4 days.
200
This is the name for the region close to the equator which is always warm.
What are the tropics
200
Rain and snow falling to the Earth is called this.
What is precipitation
200
The process of rocks breaking down.
What is weathering?
200
Water in streams and rivers with no salt.
What is freshwater.
300

One complete spin of the Earth on its axis is called this.

What is a day

300
When North America is having summer, South America is having this.
What is winter?
300
Water found the below the surface is called this.
What is groundwater?
300
This fault line runs through California
What is the San Andreas fault?
300

The imaginary lines running east and west (they are to the north and to the south of the equator)

What are latitude lines?

400
This Earth motion makes it appear as if the sun is moving.
What is Earth's rotation
400
The shortest daylight of the year occurs around Dec 21st and is called this.
What is the winter solstice?
400
Water in the air as an invisible gas is called this.
What is water vapor?
400
The circle of volcanoes and earthquakes around the Pacific Rim.
What is The Ring Of Fire?
400

The name in Summer and winter when Earth is farthest from the sun.

What is solstice?

500
This is why we have Feb. 29th every 4 years.
What is leap year to make up for the extra 1/4 day of revolution.
500

The number of degrees the earth is tilted from straight up on its axis.

What is 23.5 degrees.

500

Freshwater makes up what percent of total water on Earth, and where is most of it found?

What is 3% and in glaciers and ice

500
The theory that the Earth's surface is in pieces on the crust.
What is plate tectonics?
500
The time in Spring and fall when the hours of day and night are equal and those seasons start.
What is eqinox?
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