Vocabulary
Structure of the Earth
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C/W
100
The thinnest layer of the Earth
What is the crust
100

There are ______________ main layers of the Earth.

What is three

100

This is an area with a distinctive climate and vegetation

What is a biome

100

Lines of longitude are sometimes known as this 

What are meridians 

100

The day to day changes of rain, storms, snow, and sun

What is weather

200
A number of rigid, but moving, pieces of Earth's surface
What is tectonic plates.
200
The thickest layer of the Earth
What is the mantle.
200

This biome is mainly made of sand and rock and is extremely hot

What is a desert biome

200

The tropic you find in the northern hemisphere 

What is the tropic of cancer 

200

The average weather of a place usually over 30 years 

What is climate

300

When plates are moving a part from one another

What is a constructive plate margin

300

This part of the Earth is around 2900 KM thick

What is the mantle

300

This biome has very few trees and contains large areas of flat grassland 

What is a temperate grassland biome 

300

The prime meridian passes through this part of England 

What is Greenwich

300

Device used to measure the amount of rainfall in mm/cm

What is a rain gauge

400

When plates are sliding past each other 

What is a Conservative plate margin

400
The rigid part of the Earth including the crust and the upper mantle (makes up the plates of the Earth)
What is the lithosphere
400

Tree species such as fir, spruce, and pine are found in this biome 

What is a Coniferous Forest biome

400

These lines encircle the Earth from east to west 

What is latitude

400

Device used to measure air pressure or air humidity in millibars (mb)

What is a barometer

500
Although the hottest layer of the Earth, this layer is solid metal
What is the inner core
500
The Earth's crust is thinnest under the _____________________ and thickest under the _____________________.
What is thinnest under the ocean and thickest under the continents.
500

This is an area of relatively high land that is flatter and not mountainous. Found in mountain biomes. 

What is a plateau

500

An invisible line of longitude around the centre of the Earth that cuts through vertically. 

What is the Prime Meridian

500

These are the 8 different global climate regions. Hint: Equatorial is one of them. 

What is tropical, desert, Mediterranean, maritime, continental, polar, mountain

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