Seasons
What is the angle of the earth's tilt?
23.5 degrees
What causes tides?
Moons gravity
What is the name of the layer that the earth's plates floating on?
Mantle
What is created when magma is able to break through the crust to the surface?
Volcano
Why does warm air rise?
It is less dense than the air around it.
What do we call earth's movement around the sun?
Revolution
How many HIGH TIDES are there each day?
2
What is the theory that the earth's crust is broken into plates?
Plate Tectonics
What do scientists call a volcano that will never erupt again?
Extinct
Gravity pulling all of the material in the atmosphere creates _____________________.
Atmospheric Pressure
What season do we feel when our hemisphere is pointed towards the sun?
Summer
What is the name of the tides with the GREATEST difference between high and low tides?
Spring Tide
What is the area called where one plate goes under another?
Subduction Zone
Name any TWO ways that weathering occurs to rocks.
Animals
Plants
Ice
Gravity
Wind/Water
What do the colors RED and BLUE represent on a weather map?
The general temperature of the air.
If it is SPRING in the Northern Hemisphere, what season is it in the Southern Hemisphere?
Fall (Autumn)
What alignment do the sun and moon have to be in to create a SPRING TIDE?
They must be in a straight line
Name ALL THREE types of plate boundary.
Transform
Divergent
Convergent
Broken rock pieces are carried away by erosion, but dropped somewhere else by ____________________.
Deposition
What kind of weather would you see in a LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM?
"Lousy" weather - rainy, cloudy, cold, windy
Why is there more heat during the summer?
There is more direct sunlight, because we are pointed towards the sun
Why does the moon affect tides more than the sun?
The moon is closer to the earth
What is the movement of magma within the earth's mantle called?
Convection Currents
What is released when an earthquake shakes the surface of the earth?
Pressure
Energy
Wind is cause by air moving from _______ pressure to __________ pressure.
HIGH to LOW