Vocab Terms
The movement of sediment from one location to another
The factors that influence the amount of energy that different places on Earth receive from the sun.
What are Earth's tilt, rotation, revolution, and latitude?
The source of water that includes streams, rivers, lakes, glaciers, and underground; does not have salt
What is freshwater?
What are landforms?
(see p. 46 of your textbook)
This letter indicates a river
What is Letter C?
These areas receive indirect rays from the sun and therefore have cooler temperatures
What are high latitude areas?
The reason that Northern and Southern hemispheres experience opposite seasons.
What is Earth's tilt?
The movement of water from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
They are common types of landforms.
What are mountains, valleys, plains, islands, and peninsulas?
(p. 46 map)
This letter indicates the highest elevation.
What is Letter A?
It's stored in Earth's streams, rivers, and lakes
What is surface water?
The energy from the sun that warms the planet, helps plants grow, and provides light.
What is solar energy?
The place where most freshwater on Earth can be found.
What is underground or locked in glaciers?
The theory the Earth's surface is divided into a dozen or so slow-moving plates/pieces of Earth's crust.
What is the theory of plate tectonics?
(p. 46 map)
What is Letter F
It takes 365 1/4 days for the Earth to complete one of these
What is a revolution?
The season with increasing temperatures and longer days
What is spring?
The water problems that affect people around the world.
What are drought, overuse, pollution, and flooding?
What happens when plates collide?
This letter indicates a large body of water.
(p. 46 of textbook)
What is Letter E
Causes erosion as they flow downhill, carving valleys and mountain peaks
What are glaciers?
What is a rotation?
The stages of the water cycle.
What are evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and runoff?
Allows magma to rise to the Earth's crust from it's interior
What are plates separating?
This letter indicates an area of land between 1,640 feet and 6,560 feet above sea level.
(see p. 46 of textbook)
What is letter D?