Rotation and Revolution
As the earth moves through space, it spins on this.
What is the axis?
Land temperatures can change at this speed.
What is fast?
In areas near the equator, this type of forest grows.
What is tropical rain forests?
This sphere contains air and other substances above the surface.
What is the atmosphere?
As early as the 1600's people looking at maps noticed that several continents seemed to fit together. The name given to this supercontinent is this.
What is Pangea?
The earth completes one of these every 24 hours.
What is rotation?
Water changes at this speed.
What is slow?
This is the largest rain forest in the world.
What is the Amazon?
This sphere consists of water in oceans, lakes, rivers, and even under the ground.
What is the hydrosphere?
The German explorer and scientist who came up with the supercontinent idea was this person.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
The earth is tilted this many degrees.
What is 23 and 1/2?
Wind that blows over water take on this temperature.
What is the waters temperature?
The trees in the tropical rain forest are this type.
What is broadleaf-evergreen?
This sphere is the world of plants, animals, and other living things that occupy the land and waters of the planet.
Evidence shows that these from South America, Africa, India, and Australia were almost identical suggesting that there was indeed a supercontinent.
What are fossils?
The earth spins in this direction.
What is west to east?
Most areas with continental climates have these kinds of winters.
What is cold snowy winters?
The dominant trees in the forests of the middle latitudes are this type.
What are deciduous?
Photographs of the Earth taken from space show clearly that it is truly this type of planet.
What is a "watery planet"?
This Greek word means personifying the earth.
The sun appears to rise in this direction.
What is the east?
Most areas with continental climates have these kinds of summers.
What are warm or hot summers?
Rain forests only cover about this percentage of the earths' surface.
What is 6%?
Landforms are commonly classified according to differences in this.
What is relief?
The Greek word pan means this.
What is all?