2.1
Complete journey around the sun
What is a Revolution?
Earth completing a turn, takes 24 hours.
What is a rotation?
A sphere of very hot metal at the center of Earth
What is the core?
A process in which water, ice, or wind remove small pieces of rock
What is Erosion?
Block of rock and soil that makes up Earth’s crust
What are Plates?
Point at which days are longest in one hemisphere and shortest in another
What is a Solstice?
Areas sharing the same time
What are Time zones?
A thick, rocky layer around the core
What is the Mantle?
A process that breaks rocks down into tiny pieces
What is Weathering?
stream of soft, nearly molten rock
What is Magma?
Point at which, everywhere on Earth, days and nights are nearly equal in length.
What is a Equinox?
If it is 8am in Iron River, what time is it California?
What is 6am?
moves like a warm stick of butter
What is the Mantle?
Large, mostly flat area that rises above the surrounding land
What are Plateaus?
Seams in Earth’s crust, often near the boundaries between plates
What are Faults?
An imaginary line the between North and South Poles, is tilted relative to its orbit
What is an axis?
What does GMT stand for?
What is Greenwich Mean Time
It holds in heat from the sun
What is the atmosphere?
creates landforms such as Sandy beaches and Plains
What is Deposition?
The movement of Earth’s plates that occur at these faults are responsible for....?
What are Earthquakes?
Earth’s orbit around the sun is shaped like....
What is an Oval?
Where the sun rises first
Where is the East?
Where the crust is the thickest
Where is Under mountain ranges?
Moving water, ice, or sometimes wind breaks rocks into little pieces.
What is Mechanical Weathering?
What comes out of a Volcano?
What is lava