Lines on Maps
Line of latitude at 0° N.
What is the Equator?
The large body of water between Africa and Australia.
What is the Indian Ocean?
The Earth is tilted on this, which causes the Earth to experience seasons.
What is an Axis?
the conversion of a vapor or gas to a liquid.
What is Condensation?
Capacity of certain gases to trap heat in the atmosphere.
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
Line of Longitude at o° E.
What is the Prime Meridian?
The 2nd layer of the Earth from the surface.
What is the Mantle?
The name for a day in December that experiences the least daylight of any day in the year.
What is the Winter Solstice?
Molten rock underneath the Earth's surface.
What is magma?
A layer of frozen ground under the Earth's surface.
What is permafrost?
Line of Latitude at 23'30° S.
What is the Tropic of Capricorn?
The large pieces of Earth's Crust that are slowly drifting over time.
What are Tectonic Plates?
The Earth completes one of these each year around the sun.
What is a Revolution?
The wearing of soil by wind, water, or ice.
What is erosion?
Periodic reversal of ocean currents and temperatures in the Mid-Pacific region.
What is El Niño?
Line of Latitude at 66'50° N.
What is the Arctic Circle?
Climate zone where freezing temperatures are common and regions include the subarctic, tundra, and ice caps.
What is High-Latitude?
The largest planet in our solar system, Jupiter, belongs to this classification of planet.
What is Jovian (Gas Giant)?
The reason for diagonal winds caused by the Earth's rotation on its axis.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
Trees that lose their leaves seasonally.
What is deciduous?
Line of Longitude at 180°?
What is the International Date Line?
The sum of Earth's water in the ocean, the ground, on the surface, and in the air.
What is the Hydrosphere?
The outermost layer of the atmosphere at least 310 miles above the surface of the Earth.
What is the Exosphere?
Process in which a sea plate subducts under a continental plate, creating debris that can cause continents to grow outward.
What is Accretion?
An area containing both deciduous and coniferous trees.
What is a mixed forest?