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Earth's Movement
The Seasons
Water On Earth
Landforms
Forces on Earth
100
Distance North or South of Earth's Equator
What is latitude?
100
Regions close to the equator.
What is tropics?
100
Water also occurs in the air as an invisible gas.
What is water vapor?
100
Rich mineral deposits in the mountains of Colorado led to the development of this.
What is mining industry?
100
Sudden, violent movements of Earth's crust.
What are earthquakes?
200
The amount of solar energy we receive is due to the planet's.
What is tilt?
200
Earth start to tilt towards the sun it is this season.
What is Spring?
200
Water that falls to Earth's surface as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
What is precipitation?
200
Scientists study how landforms are made and this.
What is affect human activity?
200
Process by which rock is broken down into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
300
Energy from the sun.
What is solar energy?
300
List the seasons.
What are winter, spring, summer, and fall?
300
Water found below Earth's surface.
What is groundwater?
300
Many settlements are built near this.
What are fertile river valleys or deltas?
300
Earth's surface is divided into a dozen or so slow-moving plates, or pieces of Earth's crust.
What is the theory of plate tectonics?
400
One complete spin of Earth on its axis.
What is rotation?
400
The Arctic and Antarctic experience this every summer.
What is 24 hours of sunlight?
400
Water that is found in Earth's streams, rivers, and lakes.
What is surface water?
400
The Panama Canal was created to do this.
What is make travel easier between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans?
400
These are the three layers of the Earth.
What are the inner core, liquid layer (mantle), and solid out layer (crust)?
500
Trip around the sun.
What is revolution?
500
The change in the Earth's tilt it creates this.
What are seasons?
500
The movement of water from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back.
What is the water cycle?
500
Shapes on the planet's surface.
What is landforms?
500
The movement of sediment from one location to another.
What is erosion?