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Inside the Earth
Storms
Water Cycle
Climate Zones
Global Warming Greenhouse effect
100
This is the center of the Earth and is made of hot iron mixed with other metals and rock.
What is the core?
100
Sudden violent movements of the Earth's crust
What is an earthquake?
100
Changing of a liquid to a gas
What is evaporation?
100
The side of the mountain that is facing the ocean
What is windward side?
100
Another name for the Earth's crust
What is the lithosphere?
200
The upper layer of Earth
What is the crust
200
Storm that forms over the ocean and brings heavy rains and violent storms.
What is a hurricane?
200
Process of water being kept in oceans, lakes, streams and underground
What is collection?
200
The type of climate zone that has the desert and steppe
What is a dry climate zone?
200
The cutting down of forests without replanting.
What is deforestation?
300
Melted rock from inside the Earth
What is magma?
300
Huge ocean wave caused by earthquake on the ocean floor
What is a tsunami?
300
Rain, snow, sleet and hail
What is precipitation?
300
These are rounded at the top instead of pointed
What is a hill?
300
Farmers do this with crops to protect the topsoil
What is crop rotation?
400
Part of the Earth surrounding the core
What is the mantle?
400
Funnel shaped windstorms
What is a tornado?
400
Gas changing back to a liquid
What is condensation?
400
Climate zone where the Rocky Mountains are
What is a highland climate zone?
400
The buildup of gases in the Earth's atmosphere that keeps the sun's warmth
What is the greenhouse effect?
500
Scientific theory that explains how processess within the earth form continents and cause their movement.
What is plate tectonics?
500
Storms or hurricanes that form int he western Pacific Ocean
What is a typhoon?
500
The force that drives the water cycle
What is the sun?
500
Most of the U.S. falls in this climate zone
What is midlatitude?
500
People practicing this will help to protect the Earth for future generations.
What is conservation?