16 of these make up the surface of the Earth and slowly move against each other.
What are tectonic plates?
100
This process allows water from a puddle to turn into water vapor.
What is evaporation?
100
A giant wave in the ocean caused by plate movement, earthquake, volcanic eruption, or other sudden change.
What is a Tsunami?
200
These periods take place in the March and September.
What are the Equinoxes?
200
This climate zone is not necessarily hot, but has a dry, arid climate.
What are deserts?
200
These are formed when tectonic plate movements release lava in large quantities in the ocean.
What are islands?
200
This is the Earth's recycling system for water.
What is the water cycle?
200
This involves the Earth's crust being broken down, over a long period of time, by consistent and small forces.
What is erosion?
300
¡¡¡Daily Double!!! This lies between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.
What are the Tropics?
300
A single mountain that rises above surrounding plains with a flat top, kind of like a tree stump.
What is a plateau?
300
A large drop-off where a large mass of land meets an ocean, like the one in Finding Nemo. This may be caused by the overlapping of tectonic plates.
What is a Continental Shelf?
300
This process allows salt water to be turned into fresh water by removing many of the dissolved chemicals and salt from it. However, the process is expensive and takes a lot of energy.
What is desalinization?
300
Build up and movement are characterized by these large quantities of ice that move across land.
What are glaciers?
400
The season that takes place in the Northern Hemisphere while the Southern Hemisphere is having winter.
What is summer?
400
The distance above or below sea level that helps determine the type of climate that a specific region may have.
What is elevation?
400
A gigantic valley found in the Pacific Ocean, the deepest part of Earth's crust.
What is the Mariana Trench?
400
¡¡¡Daily Double!!! These are the three processes water goes through as it passes through the water cycle.
What is evaporation, condensation, and precipitation?
400
Dynamite is an example of this force.
What is human action?
500
A point in time where the days are longest in one hemisphere and shortest in the other hemisphere.
What is a solstice?
500
A region characterized by specific trends in weather that affect the way people live and work every day.
What is a climate zone?
500
This geographic phenomenon was made into a song by the famous Johnny Cash. This is named for the volcanos and earthquakes that surround the Pacific tectonic plate.
What is the Ring of Fire?
500
These are the four spheres that help recycle Earth's water?
What is the lithosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere?
500
This natural disaster can cause destruction. For example, Farmer Joe wakes up one morning. It is a good morning, except his house is split in half. One half is down the road, and he is in the other half. There is a large fissure splitting the ground too.