Erosion
Land Forces
Weather
Climate Zones
Cycles
100
This large mass of slow flowing ice forms in cold areas where snow piles and freezes.
What is a glacier?
100
a break or crack in the rock of the lithosphere
What is a fault?
100
As these particles get carried higher into the air, they begin to lose heat energy and become cooler.
What is water vapor?
100
receives a tremendous amount of precipitation
What is a tropical zone?
100
A ___________ is an area from which water is drained.
What is a watershed?
200
This is a movement of a large amount of rock and soil down a steep slope.
What is a landslide?
200
the Earth's crust
What is a plateau?
200
This is used to measure the depth of rain.
What is a rain gauge?
200
Polar zones have the ___________ zones on Earth.
What is worst?
200
Eighteen percent of your body is made of this.
What is carbon?
300
This piece of land is bordered by water on three sides.
What is a headland?
300
This is a sudden shaking in the Earth's crust.
What is an earthquake?
300
An air mass is a large region of air that has similar this and this (2 words).
What are temperature and humidity?
300
_____________ climate zones can be found in areas like California.
What is mild?
300
The proteins that make up your muscles, skin, nerves, bones, blood and enzymes in your body contain 78% of this.
What is nitrogen?
400
Barrier islands protect this.
What is the coastline?
400
a series of huge waves caused by an earthquake
What is a tsunami?
400
Predicting the weather is called this.
What is a forecast?
400
Describe these and you've described an area's climate.
What are plants?
400
_____________ fix nitrogen in the soil.
What are beans?
500
When water collects on land that is normally dry...
What is flooding?
500
These form over a very hot part of the Earth's mantle.
What is a volcano?
500
This place records temperature, wind direction, wind speed and humidity.
What is a weather station?
500
Scientist's are concerned about global ___________.
What is warming?
500
Compost is a mixture of dead organic material that can be used as _____________.
What is fertilizer?
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