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Forces Shaping Earth
Landforms and Water Resources
Climate
Regions
Human-Environment Interaction
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100
Crust, mantle, and core
What are the layers of Earth?
100
This is located off of a continent and stretches several miles out into the ocean.
What is a continental shelf?
100
Changes in temperature, wind direction and speed, and air moisture that take place over a short period of time.
What is weather?
100
This occurs when polluting chemicals combine with ozone.
What is smog?
100
About 70% of Earth's surface is covered in this.
What is water?
200
This theory explains how continents were formed
What is plate tectonics?
200
Only 3% of our water is this.
What is freshwater?
200
Predictable patterns of weather in an area over many years.
What is climate?
200
This affects fish, trees, plants, and even the surfaces of buildings.
What is acid rain?
200
A place shared by plants and animals that depend on one another for survival.
What is an ecosystem?
300
The Himalayan Mountains were formed this way
What is by plates colliding?
300
This trench is 36,198 feet deep and is located in the western Pacific Ocean.
What is the Mariana Trench?
300
Steadily flowing streams of water in the world's seas.
What are currents?
300
Farmers alternate their crops from year to year to help renew nutrients in the soil.
What is crop rotation?
300
A crack in the Earth's crust located in California.
What is the San Andreas Fault?
400
These are sudden violent movements of the Earth's crust.
What is an earthquake?
400
These are underground layers of rock through which water flows.
What is an aquifer?
400
Wind patterns that are typical in only a small area
What are local winds?
400
This form of watering crops is considered wasteful.
What is irrigation?
400
This is where many earthquakes and volcanoes occur in the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Ring of Fire?
500
The process that moves weathered rock.
What is erosion?
500
Evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and runoff
What is the water cycle?
500
This climate has warm temperatures and heaby rainfall throughout the year.
What is a tropical climate?
500
The variety of plants and animals living on Earth
What is biodiversity?
500
This is Spanish for "the boy" and "the girl"
What is el nino and la nina?