Rotation and Revolution
What is the name of the imaginary line that runs from the North to the South pole that Earth rotates on?
What is the axis of roation?
The study of places and the relationships between people and their envrionments.
What is geography?
What are the four layers of the Earth?
What are the two types of landforms?
What is surface and and ocean landforms?
The average condition of the atmosphere over a long period of time (at least 30 years).
What is climate?
Does Earth rotate from West to East or East to West?
What is West to East?
The study of Earth's seasons, climate, atmosphere, soil, streams, landforms, and oceans.
What is physical geography?
What are the two types of crust?
What is oceanic and continental curst?
What two ways are landforms created?
What is tectonic plate movement and erosion?
The condition of the atmosphere at a particular time.
What is weather?
How many days does it take for the Earth to complete one revolution?
What is 365.25 days?
The distribution of networks of people and cultures on Earth's surface.
What is human geography?
What is the thickest layer of the Earth?
What is the mantle?
This is a circle of volcanoes and earthquakes along the rim of the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Ring of Fire?
Clouds affect the weather in what way?
What is: Clouds can cause a change in temperature-if clouds block the sun during the day, it is cooler. If the clouds are out at night, they trap the heat like a blanket and warm the environment up.
The ________ marks the points where the poles are tilted at their maximum toward or away from the sun.
What is solstice?
The slow movement of continents over time.
What is continental drift?
The inner core is a huge mental ball of _____ and _____.
What is iron and nickel?
What percent of active volcanoes are in the Ring of Fire?
What is 75 percent?
How do ocean currents affect climate?
The ocean currents act as a conveyor belt moving warm water from the equator to the poles and then transports cool water back to the tropics.
Why is it hot at the equator and not at the poles?
What is: The sunlight is more concentrated at the Equator and is more spread out at the Poles.
A group of places that have similar temperatures, precipitation levels, and changes in weather.
What is climate regions?
________ in the mantle cause Earth's plates to move.
Convection Currents
Why is there so much geological activity in the Ring of Fire?
The Pacific Plate pushes/slides against the continental plates, creating tremendous pressure and causing earthquakes/volcanoes.
When the relative humidity reaches 100%, what happens?
It rains.