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what causes the seasons?
What is Earth's tilt causing different amounts of light to fall on certain areas at different times.
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The hottest interior part of the Earth is its what?
What is core.
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The path that Earth travels around the sun is known as its what?
What is orbit.
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Where is Earth's crust the thinnest?
What is beneath the ocean floor.
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Why does a day on Earth last 24 hours?
What is it takes Earth 24 hours to complete one full rotation on its axis, moving the entire surface of Earth through the cycle of the day and night.
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Day and night are caused by what?
What is the rotation of Earth on its axis.
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What causes volcanoes to erupt?
What is the movement of continental plates creates pressure that pushes magma to Earth's surface.
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As one side of Earth turns away from the sun, what does the sun appear to do on that side of the Earth?
What is to set causing a sunset.
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Stretches of low lands between mountains and hills are known as what?
What is valleys.
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What gives the landforms of Earth their characteristic shape?
What is landforms are shaped by the movement of molten rock inside the mantle, which push Earth's crust up and by processes on Earth's surface that wear the crust down.
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If it is noon in New York, which is Eastern Standard Time, what time is it in Denver, which is Mountain Standard Time?
What is 10 a.m.
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What causes earthquakes?
What is plates slide against one another, often as faults.
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How does the Prime Meridian affect time zones on a global level?
What is the Prime Meridian is the line by which Greenwich Mean Time is based.
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What is the difference between chemical weathering and mechanical weathering?
What is chemical weathering occurs when rainwater dissolves rocks and mechanical weathering occurs when moving water, ice, or wind breaks rocks into little pieces.
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Which landforms described in the lesson are formed by the process of deposition?
What is plains, deltas, and sandy beaches are formed by deposition of eroded material.
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Time in the region surrounding the Prime Meridian is sometimes called what?
What is Universal Time.
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On of the man ways that the process of deposition contributes to changing the Earth's surface includes what?
What is creating beaches along the coastline.
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The thick, rocky layer around Earth's core is what?
What is crust.
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The theory of plate tectonics states that magma under Earth's surface does what?
What is causes plates in Earth's crust to move in different directions.
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Describe three landforms that rise above the surrounding land and describe three that are flat or lower than the surrounding land.
What is mountains, hills, and plateaus rise about the surrounding land. Valleys, plains, and deltas are flat areas and tend to be low lying.
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When it is daytime in New York City it is what on the opposite side of the Earth?
What is nighttime.
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Weathering and erosion impact human settlement patterns because as these processes break down landforms and rocks into smaller pieces, they also contribute to what?
What is providing soil for agriculture.
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Moving from the outer most layer to the inner most layer, what is the correct order of the layers of Earth?
What is crust, mantle, core.
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How does plate movement create mountains?
What is when two plates push against each other, this pressure makes the crust bend to form mountains.
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What do mountains, volcanoes, and earthquakes have in common?
What is all are created by plate tectonics, the movement of large plates in Earth's crust that rest on top of molten magma.
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