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Landforms
Resources
Climate
Miscellaneous
100
How hot or cold the air feels.
What is temperature?
100
Most of the earth's surface is covered by this
What is water?
100
These are the three kinds of resources
What are renewable, recycable, and non renewable resources?
100
This type of climate is found in the low latitudes and is hot, wet and sunny.
What is tropical?
100
This is a material from the earth that humans use in meeting their needs
What is a natural resource?
200
A thick blanket of gases that surrounds the Earth
What is atmosphere?
200
Three examples of landforms are
What are hills, mountains, plateau, plains, delta, fjord, valley, butte, canyon, etc.
200
Planting trees is an example of this type of resource.
What is a renewable resource?
200
this type of climate is found in the middle latitudes and has moderate rainfalls, temperatures that rarely fall below freezing, nad varied vegetation.
What is moderate?
200
These are materials that were created over millions of years from the remains of prehistoric plants and animals.
What are fossil fuels?
300
A huge piece of the outer skin of the Earth's crust
What is a plate?
300
As the huge pieces of the Earth's crust move, this happens to the Earth's surface.
What is changes?
300
Water, nitrogen, and carbon are examples of this type of resource because they recycle through the environment naturally.
What is a recycable resource?
300
The Earth's climate is affected by latitude, landforms, and a combination of these two things.
What are wind and water?
300
Without wind and water working together, this would happen to the Earth
What is overheat?
400
A resource that can be replaced
What is a renewable resource?
400
The causes of weathering are these
What are wind, rain, and ice?
400
Fossil fuel is an example of this type of resource because once it is used it is depleted.
What is a nonrenewable resource?
400
Forests and grasslands are examples of vegetation that grows in this type of climate.
What is continental?
400
Soil, water, and minerals are examples of these
What are natural resources?
500
A resource that cannot be replaced when used up
What is a nonrenewable resource?
500
Wide, flat areas or gently rolling lands are called this
What is a plain?
500
These are examples of each type of the three resources.
What are planting crops, water, and natural gas?
500
The polar climate is found in these latitudes
What is high?
500
This is one major factor that influences the climate of an area
What is latitude?