The Earth
The Crust, Upper Mantle, Lower Mantle, Outer and Inner Cores.
What are the layers of the Earth?
The condition of the atmosphere at a particular time, that changes because of air masses.
What is weather?
An organization that keeps order, sets rules, and provides services for a society.
What is government?
The exact moment at which summer and winter start.
What is a solstice?
A violent shaking of Earth's crust that typically occur along faults or cracks in Earth's surface.
What is an earthquake?
These cause weather changes and the four seasons
What is the Earth's tilt, rotation and revolution?
a group of places that have similar temperatures, precipitation leves, and changes in weather.
What is a climate region?
A person who lives within the territory of a government and is granted certain rights and responsibilities by that government.
What is a citizen?
Earth's crust is divided into sections that are constantly shifting and may move up to four inches a year.
What are tectonic plates?
A circle of volcanoes and earthquakes along the rim, or outer edge, of the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Ring of Fire?
The edge of a continent that often extends out under the water.
What is the Continental Shelf?
Can cause great destruction, it is so powerful it can deeply affect human lives, examples are Katrina and Ida.
What is extreme weather?
The total value of the goods and services that a country produces.
What is gross domestic product? (GDP)
The process by which rocks and soil slowly break apart and are swept away.
What is erosion?
A community of plants and animals and their habitat.
What is an ecosystem?
Large, powerful ocean waves that can cause great destruction along the coast.
What is a tsunamis?
Scientists are researching extreme weather and trying to predict the path of the storms for this reason.
What is to lessen the effects of extreme weather on humans?
Culture is how people in a region live, behave, and think, expressions of culture include these.
What are language, religion, beliefs, and customs, and also include the arts?
The continual movement of water from Earth's surface into the air and back again.
What is the hydrologic cycle?
How all people deserve to be treated in the world, the political, economic and cultural rights that all people should have?
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
This is essential for all forms of life on Earth.
What is water?
These are central to economic development and basic human needs.
The four factors of production that will help a country have a strong economy.
What are land, labor, capital and entrepreneurship?
The average condition of the atmostphere over a long period of time.
What is Climate?
Latitude, elevation, prevailing winds, and ocean currents.
What are the four factors that affect a region's climate?