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Day and Night
Land, Air, and Water
Weather
Climate
Vocabulary
100
The earth spins on its...
What is axis?
100
The name of the gigantic supercontinent that once ruled the earth.
What is a pangaea?
100
This is the day to day changes in the air.
What is weather?
100
The average weather over many years for one place.
What is climate?
100
This the term used for the path that the Earth takes around the sun.
What is an orbit?
200
When the earth tilts away from the sun, the days are...
What is shorter?
200
The theory that earth is made up of these huge, slowing moving slabs of rock.
What is plate tectonics?
200
This is what falls to the ground from clouds, coming in the forms of rain, sleet, hail, or snow.
What is precipitation?
200
This is the element that keeps the earth from overheating.
What is water?
200
This is the term used when the earth takes 365 days to go around the sun. It completes one of these.
What is a revolution?
300
This is another name for the longest days in the year.
What is an equinox?
300
The average age of a tectonic plate.
What is about 100 million years?
300
This cycle shows how the earth keeps itself full of water, and how water travels from the ground to the sky and back to the ground.
What is the water cycle?
300
The farther away from the equator, the __________ the climate.
What is colder?
300
This is the process of breaking down rocks into tiny pieces. It is caused by wind, rain, and ice.
What is weathering?
400
When the sun is tilted directly toward the sun, the temperature of the earth gets...
What is hotter?
400
The thick layer of special gases that surrounds the outside of the earth.
What is the atmosphere?
400
Weathering creates landforms such as... (Name TWO)
What are hills, valleys, canyons, soil, etc?
400
This is the term used for the specific types of plants that grow in an area naturally.
What is vegetation?
400
This is the term used for when small pieces of rocks may be carried to new places.
What is erosion?
500
These are the names of the three zones of latitude
What is low, middle, and high?
500
This circle around the Pacific Ocean shows the action of volcanoes and earthquakes where the plates move against one another.
What is the Ring of Fire?
500
The spinning of the earth causes these two things on the surface of the earth.
What are wind and ocean currents?
500
These are the 5 types of climate.
What is Tropical, Dry, Mild, Continental, Polar?
500
This is the term used for how hot or cold the air feels.
What is temperature?