Earth's Layers
Plate Tectonics
The Water Cycle
Mt. Everest
The Atmosphere, Climate Regions, and Landforms
100
The thickest layer of the Earth.
What is Mantle?
100
Sudden and violent movements of the Earth's crust.
What is earthquakes?
100
Changing water from liquid to a gas.
What is evaporation?
100
Mt. Everest is the ________________ mountain in the world.
What is tallest?
100
The Sahara Desert would be located in this climate region.
What is dry?
200
Layer that is made up of hot iron, metals, and rock.
What is the core?
200
The theory that explains how the continents were formed and why they move.
What is plate tectonics?
200
A stage in the water cycle where water droplets fall to the ground. It can be rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
What is precipitation?
200
One of the first climbers to reach the top of Mt. Everest.
What is Edmund Hillary?
200
This is a landform that is surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
300
The Earth's upper layer.
What is the crust?
300
How Mt. Everest was formed.
What is plates collide and push up rock?
300
The last stage in the water cycle where water collects on the ground and in rivers, lakes, and oceans.
What is collection?
300
In the movie we watched in class, this many climbers reached the top of Mr. Everest.
What is three?
300
Name one way in which the atmosphere protects us.
What is not let too much heat in? Keeps enough heat inside the Earth?
400
Magma is also known as this.
What is lava?
400
When plates meet alongside each other and makes a crack in the Earth's crust.
What is faults?
400
The process where water changes from gas back to a liquid.
What is condensation?
400
True or False: When climbing to the top of Mt. Everest, it is better to climb faster than slower because it helps you acclimatize better.
What is false?
400
The climate zone that Maryland is located in.
What is continental?
500
This layer includes ocean floors and the continents.
What is the crust?
500
When plates move, the continents on top of them move as well.
What is continental drift?
500
This type of air holds more water vapor than cool air.
What is warm air?
500
The exact height of Mt. Everest.
What is 29,028 FT.
500
Scientists say that this is strengthening the greenhouse effect.
What is pollution?
M
e
n
u