Vocabulary
Vocabulary 2
land forms
Climate
The Earth
100
A non-living substance found under earth's surface
What is mineral?
100
A river and all the streams that flow into it
What is river system?
100
This land form has the highest elevation
What is mountain?
100
There are 3 of these in each hemisphere
What are climate zones?
100
The continents are located on these slow moving, large pieces of earth's crust
What are tectonic plates?
200
Natural features of earth's surface
What are land forms?
200
The height of land above sea level
What is elevation?
200
This determines whether land is called a plain, mountain...
What is elevation?
200
These are the Southern hemisphere climate zones from North to South
What are tropical, temperate and polar
200
This giant continent eventually broke apart
What is Pangaea?
300
Great sheets of ice
What are glaciers?
300
Products of human skill
What is artifact?
300
This land form has a high, flat top
What is a plateau
300
This 0 degree line of latitude is in the tropical zone
What is the equator?
300
The 3 layers of earth
What are core, mantle and crust?
400
The study of the remains of past human cultures
What is archaeology?
400
The average weather condition of a place over a period of time
What is climate
400
This land form can be found in far North New Jersey
What is a hill?
400
In which zone is most of the United States located?
What is temperate?
400
Heat from this layer of earth puts pressure on the mantle
What is the core?
500
The wearing away of land caused by wind, rain, ice
What is erosion?
500
Slow moving sections of the earth
What are tectonic plates?
500
Most of New Jersey is this type of land form
What is a plain
500
Climate affects how human beings do this
What is how they dress?
500
Earth is ______% land and ______% water
What is 30 and 70?
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