Earth
How many Oceans are there?
4
What are the plates under the crust of the earth called?
Tectonic Plates
What is the 0 degree latitude line that receives the most direct sunlight classed?
The Equator
What climate receives less that 10" of rain a year, and can be hot or clod?
Desert
What climate has deciduous trees that experience 4 distinct seasons?
Mid-Latitude Forest
How many continents are there?
7
What kind of boundary happens when the plates run into each other?
Convergent plate boundary
What latitude zone surrounds the Equator?
Low Latitudes
What climate would you expect to find tall grasses and shrubbery in?
Grassland
(more specifically a prairie)
What climate would you expect to find giraffes, elephants, and cheetahs in?
Savanna
Earth is the _____ planet from the sun.
3rd
Which kind of boundary causes volcanoes to form?
Divergent Boundaries
What latitude gets the least direct sunlight?
High Latitudes
What kind of trees are common in the Taiga?
Coniferous or non-deciduous trees
How is weather different from climate?
Weather is what is happening in the moment in the atmosphere
Why is the Earth able to house life?
Liquid water and breathable oxygen
Transverse plate boundary
What is another name for the Low Latitudes?
The Tropics
Name a climate that would have many natural resources
Rainforest, Mid-Latitude forest, Grassland, Savanna
(Any of the Middle Latitude climates)
Name a climate that would have limited natural resources
Tundra, Taiga, Desert
What it called when all the continents were together 200 million years ago?
Pangea
What kind of erosion created the Great Lakes?
Glacier Erosion
What is another name for the Middle Latitudes?
The Temperate Zone or Sub-Tropical
Name an economic activity that is dependant on the resources in an area
Fishing, mining, lumbering, farming, etc.
What does a nation that doesn't have many natural resources have to do to survive?
Trade and/or import resources from somewhere else