Earth
Larger area of ocean water partially surrounded by landmasses.
What is a Gulf.
Primary cause for earthquakes.
What is tectonic plate movement.
Without this Earth would not have seasons.
What is axis.
Region of reduced rainfall on one side of the mountain.
What is rain shadow.
A process by which Earth's surface is worn away by forces such as wind, rain, chemicals and ice.
What is weathering.
A thin rocky layer at the surface of the Earth.
What is Crust
The types of tectonic movement.
What are convergent, divergent, transform.
Complete trip around the sun, 365 1/4 days causes.
What is seasons.
The side of a mountain that receives masses of moist air and rain.
What is the windward side.
World's largest continent.
What is Asia.
Where many earthquakes happen.
What is plate boundaries.
Tectonic activity formed the Himalayas.
What is the convergent or collision of plates.
Ponds, rivers, streams, lakes and groundwater.
What is fresh water.
Sun's indirect and direct rays influence this.
What is Climate.
A long, narrow steep sided cut into the ground or on the ocean floor.
What is a trench.
The result of what happens inside the earth.
What are mountains and volcanoes.
Surrounds the Pacific Ocean and has multiple earthquakes and volcanic activity.
What is the Ring of Fire.
An area where sand, silt, clay or gravel is deposited at the mouth of a river.
What is a Delta.
At all latitude belts this will influence climate due to the atmosphere thinning.
What is elevation.
Surrounded by water on 3 sides.
What is a peninsula.
This happens to magma after it erupts on Earth's surface.
It cools and solidifies. Can build new islands from the volcanic eruption.
Mid Atlantic Ridge was created through this tectonic activity.
What is divergent.
A giant ocean wave caused by volcanic eruptions or the movement of the earth under the ocean floor.
What is a tsunami.
Wind and ocean currents do this to influence climate.
Circulate moving wind and ocean currents around the Earth.
A narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas. Panama Canal is one.
What is an isthmus.