Maps
The Earth's Structure
Landforms
Weather or Climate?
Source Code
100
A box on a map that has various symbols for different types of locations on a map.
Key or legend
100
200 million years ago the planet had one super continent that was called... (spell it correctly, please)
Pangaea
100
A narrow strip of land that is surrounded on two sides by water is called an....
Isthmus
100
Any form of water that falls to the ground is called..
Precipitation
100
Things that are found in nature that are useful to people are called
Natural resources
200
What two continents are we going to primarily study in this course?
North America and South America
200
The outer layer of the Earth is called the....
Crust
200
A group of islands
Archipelago
200
What is this quote an example of? "It's so humid in Nebraska that I wish I was surfing in California!"
Weather
200
Any type of plant life is called...
Vegetation
300
Vertical lines on a map that measure East and West
Longitude
300
The second layer of the Earth is called the [blank] and is made up of liquid rock or magma.
Mantle
300
A river or stream that flows into a larger body of water
Tributary
300
"It snows from December to March (or later) in Omaha." This quote is an example of climate or weather?
Climate
300
If you are a miner or a dig deep into the Earth you can gather natural resources called...
Minerals
400
Horizontal Lines on a map that measure North and South, parallel with the Equator
Latitude
400
This is a picture of what?
Plate tectonics
400
Elevation is defined as...
The height above sea level
400
Where would you find a temperate climate? (or what weather would you expect to experience in a temperate climate?)
YES!!!!
400
Trees, grass, oxygen, and water are example of nonrenewable/renewable resources.
Renewable
500
The invisible, horizontal line that goes around the middle of the Earth is called the....
Equator
500
The place where two plates meet is called [blank] lines.
fault
500
This land form used to connect North America to Asia
The Bering Land Bridge
500
The ocean moves in the same paths called...
Currents
500
Fossil fuels, coal, and iron are limited, meaning they cannot be replaced. They are examples of [blank] resources.
Nonrenewable
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