EARTH IN SPACE
TIME/EARTH'S ROTATION
EARTH'S STRUCTURE
FORCES ON EARTHS SURFACE
FORCES INSIDE EARTH
100
The imaginary line between the North and the South poles that the Earth is spinning on.
What is the AXIS?
100
How many hours it takes the Earth to make a complete turn, or ROTATION.
What is 24 hours?
100
A sphere of very hot metal at the center of the Earth.
What is the CORE?
100
Large area of flat or gently rolling land.
What is a plain?
100
Huge blocks of the Earth's crust
What are plates? or tectonic plates?
200
The path one object makes as it revolves around another.
What is an ORBIT?
200
Areas sharing the same time
What is a time zone?
200
This substance covers approximately 75% of the Earth's surface
What is water?
200
Rock that is broken down.
What is SEDIMENT?
200
Nearly melted rock
What is MAGMA?
300
It takes this many days for the Earth to make a complete journey, or revolution, around the the sun.
What is 365 1/4 days?
300
The direction in which the Earth rotates.
What is towards the EAST?
300
The part of the Earth's surface that oceans are located on.
What is the CRUST?
300
Process in which water, ice, or wind remove small pieces of rock.
What is EROSION?
300
Flat plains built on the seabed where a river fans out and deposits material over many years.
What is a DELTA?
400
A point at which days are longest in one hemisphere and shortest in the other.
What is a SOLSTICE?
400
The Prime Meridian runs through this town in England and is at the center of the time zones.
What is Greenwich, England?
400
The thickest layer of the Earth.
What is the Mantle?
400
Process that breaks down rocks in to tiny pieces.
What is weathering?
400
The 3 different types of boundaries (where the plates meet)
What are convergent, divergent, and transform boundaries?
500
A point at which, everywhere on Earth, days and nights are equal in length.
What is an EQUINOX?
500
The number of time zones on Earth.
What is 24?
500
The mechanical layer of the Earth that the tectonic plates are on.
What is the LITHOSPHERE?
500
An area in which a certain type of landform is dominant.
What is a LANDFORM REGION?
500
The cause of the 2011 Tsunami in Japan
What is SUBDUCTION?
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