The location of a place compared to another place.
What is relative location?
100
The outer layer of the Earth.
What is the crust?
100
A complete revolution of the Earth around the sun takes this long.
What is 365 1/4 days?
100
Layer of gases that surround the Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
200
Climate zone that is very cold and covered in ice.
What is the polar zone?
200
One of two days each year when the sun reaches its northernmost or southernmost point - It will either be the longest day of the year or the shortest day of the year based on sunlight.
What is a solstice?
200
The line of latitude that is at 0 degrees.
What is the equator?
200
The water that falls on Earth as rain, snow, sleet, hail or mist.
What is precipitation?
200
The Earth make one complete spin on its axis every...how long?
What is 24 hours?
300
The innermost layer of the Earth.
What is the inner core?
300
The line at 0 degree longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
300
To circle around something, like the moon around the Earth.
What is orbit?
300
The average weather conditions in an area over a long period of time.
What is climate?
300
A material that can be used to produce crops or other products.
What is a resource?
400
The height or depth of a place compared to sea level.
What is elevation?
400
One of two days each year when the sun is directly over the equator. The amount of sunlight and darkness will be close to 12 hours each.
What is an equinox?
400
This climate zone is hot and rainy and has dense forests.
What is the tropical zone?
400
About ______ % of the Earth's surface is water.
What is 70%?
400
Imaginary line that runs through the center of the Earth from the North Pole to the South Pole.
What is the axis?
500
A shaking or trembling of Earth, caused by the collision of tectonic plates.
What is an earthquake?
500
A place where tectonic plates grind against each other.
What is a fault?
500
A large body of ice that moves slowly across land.
What is a glacier?
500
A long, narrow band of volcanoes surrounding the Pacific Ocean.