A severe, high latitude region that hovers around frigid temperatures, is covered in permafrost, and only supports small plants during a short summer season.
What is polar (cold)?
100
This sparse, dry biome receives little precipitation and only supports a few, specially adapted plants and animals such as the kangaroo rat.
What is the desert?
100
This is the theory that the earth's crust is broken into plates that move by crashing into each other or pulling apart from one another, releasing energy from the earth's interior and causing earthquakes and volcanoes.
What is plate tectonic theory
100
this body of water is fully enclosed by land
What is a lake?
100
the four layers of the earth
What are the crust, mantle, inner core and outer core
200
A low latitude climate with lots of rain and many, many trees. Rain falls all year.
What is tropical wet?
200
This low latitude biome receives a lot of precipitation and is home to many tall trees, which protect the soil from the heavy rain.
What is the tropical rain forest?
200
the breakdown of rocks by water, plant roots, temperature changes, and the formation of ice and mineral crystals.
What is weathering?
200
a sheltered body of deep water next to the shore
What is a harbor?
200
the three major types of landforms
What are mountains, plains, and plateaus?
300
Not completely devoid of precipitation, this region does lack moisture for most of the year. However, it receives a little rainfall which can support some grasses.
What is semiarid?
300
This biome, also known as a savanna, is an open area with only a few scattered trees. The grasses can ggrow up to 10 feet high during the rainy season and it houses animals such as the wildebeast.
What is the tropical grassland?
300
the three types of erosion
What is wind, glacier, wave?
300
water covers this percentage of the earth's surface
What is 71%?
300
the three latitude zones
What are the tropics (low), temperate (middle), and polar (high)?
400
the name for the drop in temperature- every 1000 ft up drops 3.5 degrees fahrenheit
What is the lapse rate?
400
This subpolar biome generally discourages most trees, except for the pine and fir trees.
What is the coniferous forest?
400
the two types of faulting and descriptions of their movement
What is strike-slip (when the plates slide along each other) and normal (when the plates slide up and down along each other)
400
the largest lake in North America
What is lake superior?
400
the point at which water vapor begins condensation
What is the dew point?
500
A middle latitude climate that extends far into the interior of the Eurasian continent. The rainfall is adequate but irregular. Winters are quite cold for the middle latitude.
What is humid continental?
500
This is also called steppes, asnd is a middle latitude biome with between 10 and 30 inches of rain a year. It has extremely fertile soil and can be known as a prarie.
What is the temperate grassland?
500
new lava deposited on the earth's surface that has hardened
What is a depositional mountain?
500
Name the four features by which rivers are compared.
What is length, discharge, drainage area, and navigability?