Earth and Sun's Energy
Water on Earth
The Land
The Seasons
Miscellaneous
100
Energy from the sun.
What is Solar Energy?
100
This is one of the most popular saltwater lakes in the U.S.
What is the Great Salt Lake in Utah?
100
Shapes on the planet's surface.
What are Landforms?
100
Periods during the year that are known for a particular type of weather.
What are the seasons?
100
This is the distance North or South of the Equator.
What is Latitude?
200
It takes Earth 24 hours to spin around the sun.
What is Rotation?
200
This is water without salt.
What is Freshwater?
200
Mountains, valleys, plains, islands, and peninsulas.
What are examples of landforms?
200
Because of the Earth's tilt, the Northern and Southern Hemispheres have this.
What causes the opposite seasons in hemispheres?
200
Water found below Earth's surface.
What is Groundwater?
300
It takes 365 1/4 days to do this around the sun.
What is Revolution?
300
Large areas of slow-moving ice.
What are Glaciers?
300
Large landmasses
What is a continent?
300
The tropics use this to determine their seasons.
What is the amount of rainfall they get?
300
Magma that reaches Earth's surface.
What is Lava?
400
It helps plants grow, and provides heat and light.
What is solar energy
400
Water that is found in Earth's streams, rivers, and lakes.
What is Surface Water?
400
The theory that Earth's surface is divided into a dozen or so slow-moving plates, or pieces of Earth's crust.
What is Plate Tectonics?
400
Regions close to the equator.
What is The Tropics?
400
Water that occurs in the air as an invisible gas.
What is Water Vapor?
500
It affects the amount of solar energy we get. It has an angle of 23 1/2 degrees.
What is the Earth's Tilt?
500
Water that falls to Earth's surface as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
What is Precipitation?
500
The process by which rock is broken down into smaller pieces.
What is Weathering?
500
During these seasons, the days become either longer or shorter.
What is Spring and Fall?
500
The movement of sediment from one location to another.
What is Erosion?
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