Key Terms
An imaginary line through Earth between the North and South poles, around which the Earth turns.
What is an axis?
Earth's affected by latitude, landforms, and a combination of ________.
What is wind and water?
A string of volcanoes and earthquake belts around the rim of the Pacific Ocean.
What is "Ring of Fire?"
An intense wind and rain storm that forms over oceans in the tropics.
What is a tropical cyclone?
the name of our galaxy that includes the Earth, the sun, the planets, and the stars in the sky.
What is the Milky Way?
A complete turn.
What is rotation?
How hot or cold the air is.
What is temperature?
A sphere of very hot metal at the center of Earth.
What is the core?
the average weather over many years
What is the low latitudes, or what is the tropics?
The thick layer around Earth's core.
What is mantle?
Water evaporates from the surface and the falls back as precipitation.
What is the water cycle?
This covers nearly 70 percent of the Earth's surface.
What is water?
the thin, rocky layer on Earth's surface.
What is crust?
the areas above the Arctic Circle and below the Antarctic Circle
What are the high latitudes? or What are the polar zones?
A process that breaks rocks down into small pieces.
What is weathering?
Air circulation and wind follow regular patterns related to latitude are called these.
What is wind and air currents?
The Earth's tilt causes this.
What are seasons?
The removal of small pieces of rock by water, ice, or wind.
What is erosion?
on June 21, the sun is directly over the Tropic of Cancer and is called the...
What is the summer solstice?
water that falls to the ground as rain, sleet, hail, or snow
What is precipitation?
Funnels of wind that can reach 200 miles per hour.
What are tornadoes?
Streams of rising magma cause these.
What are volcanoes?
huge block of Earth's crust
What is a plate?
Earth takes 365 1/4 days to complete one of these
What is revolution?