The Earth Has Layers?
Forces at Work
Water All Around
Rehab Your Vocab
Seasons for You
100
The Earth has 16 of these that make up the crust
What is tectonic plates?
100
The imaginary line that run through the Earth's center
What is the axis
100
Salt water can be found in these
What is seas, oceans, and lakes
100
The tundra is a type of
What is biome
100
A measure for comparing climates is
What is average daily temperature
200
The Earth has 3 main layers, name them
What is the crust, mantle and core
200
Earth's constant orbit around the sun is caused by what
What is gravity
200
List the world's oceans from largest to smallest
What is Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic
200
This occurs in about Mid June in the Northern Hemisphere
What is the Summer Solstice
200
Day and night in both hemispheres are of equal length
What is equinox
300
The core is made up of two parts
What is inner and outer core
300
Tectonic plates rubbing against each other is called
What is earthquakes
300
Greenland and Antartica are covered in
What is Ice Sheets
300
Water inside the Earth's crust is called
What is groundwater
300
A region of reduced rain fall causes this
What is rain shadow
400
The outer mantle contains this product that explodes from volcanoes
What is magma
400
The major fault line located closest to Las Vegas
What is the San Andreas Fault
400
These two continents are completely surrounded by water
What is Australia and Antartica
400
The underwater plain that borders a continent
What is the Continental Shelf
400
These are the 6 climate zones
What is tropical, desert, high mountain, humid temperate, cold temperate, and polar
500
It takes millions of years to form these
What is landforms
500
Underwater earthquakes cause these
What is Tsunamis
500
This narrow strip of land connects two larger land areas
What is an isthmus
500
This resolves most of the minerals found in salt water to make it drinkable
What is desalinization
500
The climate zones were created by
Who is Wladimir Köppen
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