Energy of Earth & Sun
Is needed for all life on our planet to exist.
What is solar energy?
Are large areas of slow-moving ice.
What are glaciers?
Are shapes on the planet’s surface.
What are landforms?
Is the short-term changes in the air for a given place and time.
What is weather?
Are seasonal winds that bring either dry or moist air.
What are monsoons?
Is one complete spin of Earth on its axis.
What is rotation?
Is found in streams, rivers, and lakes.
What is surface water?
Is land surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
Is the sideways movement of air.
What is wind?
Is a group of plants and animals that depend on each other and the environment in which they live in for survival.
What is an ecosystem?
Is a trip around the sun.
What is revolution?
Is found below the Earth’s surface.
What is ground water?
Is the production of electricity from water power.
What hydroelectric power?
Are large streams of surface seawater that move heat around the Earth.
What are currents?
Is the spread of desert-like conditions?
What is desertification?
This is 23.5 degrees.
What is the tilt of the Earth?
Is the movement of water from Earth’s surface to the atmosphere and back.
What is the water the cycle?
Is the process which rock is broken down into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
Where two air masses of different temperatures or moisture content meet.
What is a front?
Are rich in minerals and humus (decayed plant or animal matter).
What are fertile soils?
The name of the regions close to the Equator.
What are the tropics?
Is the saltwater percentage of the Earth’s water supply and the percentage of water that covers Earth’s surface.
97 percent of the Earth’s water supply is saltwater and 71 percent of the Earth’s surface is covered in water.
Is the movement of sediment from one location to another.
What is erosion?
Are large storms in the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Ocean. Describe them and state which storm name belongs to which ocean.
Hurricanes and Typhoons are large storms that produce drenching rain and strong winds. Hurricanes can be found in the Atlantic Ocean and typhoons are found in the Pacific Ocean.
Is much larger than an ecosystem, it may be made up of several ecosystems.
What is a biome?