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Forces Shaping the Earth
Landforms and Water Resources
Climate Regions
Human Environment Interaction
Vocabulary
100
Layer of the Earth that is the thickest
What is mantle
100
highest landforms
What is a mountain
100
Three things that influence Earth's climate
What is sun, wind, and water
100
mass of air surrounding the Earth
What is atmoshere?
100
causes unusual weather patterns and creates severe storms in North America
What is El Nino
200
Layer of earth solid because of tremendous pressure
What is inner core
200
flat lowlands typically found near the coast
What is plains
200
pattern of weather over many years
What is climate?
200
collectiono f plants and animals on Earth
What is biosphere?
200
gases in the atmosphere trap the sun's warmth
What is The Greenhouse Effect
300
theory of how the continents were formed
What is plate tectonics
300
flatlands at higher elevations
What is a plateau
300
earth's climate is directly related to what
What is the sun?
300
Earth's crust, all land above and below the ocean
What is lithosphere?
300
layer of the Earth that is a liquid
What is outer core
400
sudden and violent movements of the Earth's crust
What is earthquakes
400
the name for the plateau off the coast of each continent
What is continental shelf
400
storms that are located western Atlantic ocean
What is a hurricane?
400
Earth's surface water and groundwater
What is hydrosphere?
400
seven continents and the ocean floor makes up which layer
What is the crust
500
Four layers of the Earth's crust
What is inner core, outer core, mantle, crust
500
percent of Earth's surface covered by water
What is 70%?
500
storms occur in the western Pacific Ocean
What is typhoons?
500
logging and farming are a negative impact on this sphere
What is lithosphere?
500
causes heavy rains and typhoons in the western Pacific
What is La Nina