A World of Changing Beauty
The Great Lakes
Save The Trees
Climates of North America
Volcanoes
100
Forces that can be so strong that there is nothing a person could do to cause them or prevent them from happening.
What are geological forces?
100
HOMES
What is the acronym used to remember the 5 great lakes?
100
The removal of trees.
What is deforestation?
100
The climate zone is the area around the equator. It is always hot.
What is tropical climate?
100
A place where melted rock leaks through the Earth's crust.
What is a volcano?
200
When a geological force causes the earth's crust to slowly wear away.
What is erosion?
200
The process of glaciers carving solid rock.
What is plucking?
200
Act like strong fingers to hold the soil together.
What are tree roots?
200
These regions are at the top and bottom of the world. These regions are extremely cold.
What are polar regions?
200
The Earth's surface is made up of large slow moving ____.
What are plates?
300
Any event or force of nature that has catastrophic consequences.
What is a natural disaster?
300
An enormous sheet of ice and snow that never melts all the way.
What is a glacier?
300
When the roots are gone the land is exposed to more _____________________.
What is erosion?
300
These climate zones boast four very different seasons. Winters are cool and mild. Summers are usually warm and wet.
What is the wet temperate region?
300
A hole in the Earth's crust.
What is a crack?
400
earthquakes, volcanoes, tornadoes, hurricanes, forest fires and floods
What are examples of geological forces?
400
Scooped out of the ground by a glacier. When the ice melted the area filled up with water forming this....
What are the Great Lakes?
400
Without the roots of plants to hold the soil together, rain can cause _________.
What are mudslides?
400
This climate zone includes very dry barren regions. It is very hot in the day. The nights are cool and sometimes even frosty.
What is the desert zone?
400
Melted rock.
What is lava?
500
The only way to prevent natural disasters from harming humans.
What is to predict them?
500
Ships transport goods and carry cargo to other states and regions.
What is the importance of the Great Lakes?
500
Governments in many countries are passing laws that limit tree harvesting.
What are ways we are trying to prevent deforestation?
500
These climate zones are often found inside of another climate zone. They are colder, wetter, and windier then their surrounding climate zones.
What is mountain region?
500
Lava burns everything it touches.
Why there is so much smoke and ash when a volcano erupts?
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