Mountains/Currents
This causes rain shadow effect
What is mountains blocking moist air
What is Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic?
Land surrounded by water
What is Island?
This city likely has the largest annual temperature range
What is Denver
What is 1 evidence of plate movement?
Uplifted mountains, volcanoes, sea level
This side of the Mountain is wetter
What are Metamorphic Rocks?
Very high land with steep sides
What is Mountain?
Cities near large bodies of water usually have _____ temperature ranges
What is small?
Death valley is located ___________ sea level
Below
Ocean currents rotate this way in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is Clockwise.
This rock type forms from compressed layers of sand, mud, and organic material.
What is Sedimentary?
High Flat elevated land
What is Plateau?
Air on the leeward side of a mountain is usually
Drier
Milankovitch cycles are changes in earth's what?
Orbit and tilt
Albedo measures this
What is a the reflection of sunlight.
This rock type forms from cooling molten magma or lava + solidification
What is Igneous?
Large flat low area
What is a Plain?
Air pressure on the leeward side is generally
Higher because air sinks
Name one water cycle process responsible for forming salt flats
Evaporation
What happens to air's temperature when it rises up a mountain
What is it decreases
This process turns rock into magma
What is Melting?
Low area between mountains
What is a valley?
Death Valley is extremely hot mainly because it is
Surrounded by mountains and below sea level
If snow and ice melt, earth's temperature will
Increase