When water vapor turns into a denser liquid or a solid state.
What is condensation?
The number of days a typical year has.
What is 365?
This causes the Earth to constantly orbit the sun.
What is the sun's gravity?
The smallest of the ice masses.
What is a glacier?
The stage during which water vapor turns into a denser liquid or a solid state.
What is condensation?
A dry, hot climate zone.
What is a desert?
Occurs on or about June 21 in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is the summer solstice?
The number of tectonic plates Earth's crust is made of.
What is 16?
A narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas.
What is an isthmus?
The name of water contained inside Earth's crust.
What is groundwater?
A cold, dry biome.
What is tundra?
When the day and night in both hemispheres are of equal length.
What is equinox?
The imaginary line running through Earth's center.
What is the axis?
An underwater plain that borders a continent.
What is a continental shelf?
The percentage of Earth's surface that is water.
What is 71 percent?
One measure for comparing climates.
What is average daily temperature?
Occurs on or about December 22 when the North Pole is tilted away from the sun.
What is the winter solstice?
Melted rock.
What is magma?
An area located at the mouth of a river.
What is delta?
The two continents that are completely surrounded by water.
What is Australia and Antarctica?
Cold temperate climates have this length summer seasons.
What is short?
The reason places on Earth have daily periods of daylight and darkness.
What is because Earth rotates once every 24 hours?
The center of the Earth.
The longest mountain range, which is found underwater.
What is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?
The subsystem that consists of Earth's water.
What is hydrosphere?