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This imaginary line divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
What is the equator?
This is the name for a thin layer of gasses surrounding the Earth.
What is atmosphere?
We live in this atmospheric layer.
What is the troposphere?
This is the starting point for measuring east and west around the Earth.
What is the Prime Meridian?
This is a cove of water indented into the land on 3 of the 4 sides.
What is a gulf?
This is not a a state: Rhode Island, Louisiana, Sacramento, Montana.
What is Sacramento?
This is the name for water in its gaseous form.
Weather occurs in this layer of the atmosphere.
What is the troposphere?
This is the Earth's northernmost circle of latitude where the Sun can be seen directly overhead.
What is the Tropic of Cancer?
Name the 5 Great Lakes.
What are lakes Heron, Michigan, Superior, Erie, and Ontario?
Fill in the blank of oceans, listed from largest to smallest: Pacific, Atlantic, _______, Arctic.
What is Indian?
This is the name for the transfer of thermal energy by the movement of particles within matter.
What is convection?
This layer of the atmosphere is above the stratosphere and is made up of particles called ions.
What is the ionosphere?
This is the northern most point int he world.
What is the North Pole?
This is the capital of Alaska.
This contains information on the symbols on a maps meaning.
What is a legend or a key?
The pressure that a column of air exerts on anything below is called this.
What is air pressure?
Ozone is found is this layer.
What is the stratosphere?
Central America belongs to this continent.
What is North America?
Which has more land, the southern polar region or the northern polar region.
What is the southern polar region?
This is the name given to a point of land extending into a body of water.
What is a cape?
Heat rising over a mountain, meeting cold air, then settling below in a valley is called this.
What is a mountain wave?
These four continents touch the Indian Ocean?
What are Africa, Asia, Australia, and Antarctica?
The international date line passes through this ocean.
What is the Pacific?