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Affects the amount of solar energy the planet receives.
What is revolution.
100
Regions that have seasons marked by rainfall rather than temperature.
What is the tropics.
100
Is the most common cause of erosion.
What is water.
100
Created Arizona's Horseshoe Bend and Grand Canyon.
What is erosion (flowing water).
100
Magma that reaches earth's surface.
What is lava.
200
Part of the Earth that can receive up to 24 hours of darkness a day.
What is areas near the Arctic and Antarctic circles (higher latitudes).
200
Seasonal winds that bring heavy rains.
What are monsoons.
200
Theory that suggests that the continents were once part of one super continent.
What is continental drift.
200
Created landforms in Utah's Canyonlands National Park.
What is wind erosion.
200
Covers 3% of the Earth.
What is freshwater, lakes and streams.
300
Season that solar energy begins to decrease.
What is fall.
300
Where most of the Earth's available freshwater is stored.
What is underground.
300
Collision of two continental plates.
What are mountains (mountain building).
300
German scientist who led the theory of Continental Drift.
Who is Alfred Wegener.
300
Distance north or south of the Equator.
What is latitude.
400
Earth completes one every 24 hours.
What is rotation.
400
About 97% of the Earth's water supply.
What is salt water.
400
Theory that explains how forces below Earth's surface have shaped our landforms.
What is Plate Tectonics.
400
Create volcanic islands like Hawaii.
What is the separation of plates (magma rising up).
400
Process of breaking rock into smaller pieces.
What is weathering.
500
Creates the Earth's change in seasons.
What is tilt.
500
Main processes of the water cycle.
What are evaporation and precipitation.
500
Mountains, valleys and peninsulas.
What are landforms.
500
Resulted from the collision of two massive continental plates in South Asia.
What are the Himalayas.
500
Little pebbles that are left from weathering.
What is sediment.