Where in the World?
You can find Greece on this continent
What is Europe?
Name for when the ground is permanantly frozen
What is permafrost?
This landform is a piece of land surrounded by water on 3 sides
What is a peninsula?
Name for the layer of Earth that we live and walk on
What is the crust
What is a blizzard?
This line cuts the Earth in half horizontally
This climate region is known for being very dry with little to no percipitation
What are deserts?
flat highland area with one steep face, elevated plain
What is a plateau
Area around the Pacific Ocean where the majority of volcanos and earthquakes occur
What is the Ring of Fire?
The name for the shortest day of the year?
What is the winter solstice
This line cuts the Earth in half vertically
What is the Prime Meridian?
This climate region is located only on the Western part of a continent
What is Marine West Coast?
Large body of water surrounded by land
What is a lake?
Cycle where water evaporates, becomes a cloud, and rains back to the earth
What is the water cycle? (Hydrolic cycle)
Burning fossil fuels increases this in the atmosphere
what are greenhouse gases?
What continent is East of Europe
What is Asia?
This climate region is only found in Mountainous areas
What is the highland climate?
This is a group of many islands
What is an archipelago?
Name the 3 different ways that plate tectonics move
Collision, Subduction, Transform
The three types of percipitation
convectional, orographical, frontal
These are the 4 Oceans
Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, and Arctic Ocean
This climate region is hot temperatures with a lot of annual rainfall
What is a Tropical Wet Climate
A narrow waterway connecting two larger bodies of water
What is a Strait
Name the planets in the solar system
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus
Powerful funnel shaped columns of spiraling air
What are tornados?