The Seven Continents
Processes Shaping the Planet
Weather and Climate
People and Nature
Hodge Podge
100
The world's longest mountain chain, located in South America.
What are the Andes Mountains.
100
The main layers of Earth.
What are the core (inner and outer), mantle, and crust?
100
The warming of the surface of the Pacific Ocean that causes rain in the western United States.
What is El Nino?
100
Oil, coal, and natural gas are all examples of this type of resource.
What is a non-renewable resource?
100

What is Canterbury? 

What is a region?

200
The two major mountain chains in North America.
What are the Appalachians and the Rockies?
200
The cause of most earthquakes.
What is the movement of tectonic plates?
200
The cause of seasons on Earth.
What is the tilt of the Earth and its revolution around the sun?
200
The increase in carbon dioxide that traps heat in the earth and can lead to climate change.
What is the greenhouse effect?
200
The only continent that is also a country.
What is Australia?
300
The continent that contains the Nile, Congo, Zambezi, and Niger rivers.
What is Africa.
300
An example of this is the cracking of rocks caused by the freezing and melting of water.
What is weathering?
300
The biome characterized by consistently warm and wet weather and diverse plant and animal life.
What is the rainforest?
300
A major way that people change their environment in order to grow food.
What is agriculture?
300
Region around the Pacific Ocean characterized by frequent earthquakes and numerous volcanoes.
What is the "Ring of Fire"?
400
The continent described as the peninsula of peninsulas.
What is Europe?
400
A giant wave caused by an underwater earthquake.
What is a tsunami?
400
The steps in the water cycle.
What are evaporation, condensation, and precipitation?
400
Adaptation or modification? Changes in building structure that people in Earthquake prone areas have made.
What is adaptation?
400
The ocean current that carries warm water towards Great Britain making the country warmer than it would be otherwise.
What is the Gulf Stream?
500
The continent that contains the Himalayas, Ural Mountains, Gobi Desert, and the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
What is Asia.
500
The process that carried away bits of rock, sand, and soil to create the Grand Canyon.
What is erosion?
500
The type of climate found in high-latitudes.
What is polar?
500
Human development that works to preserve the environment as well as promote economic growth.
What is sustainable development?
500
The event that marks the beginning of spring and fall.
What are equinoxes?
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