Chapter two SS Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
Why is the sun important to the solar system? | It provides heat and light, and allows us to have days nights and years. |
The Earths tilt is responsible for _______________ and _______________. | temperature and seasons. |
What is most of the Earth's surface covered by? | water |
What happens to the Earth's surface when huge pieces of crust move? | Earthquakes and volcanoes are created |
The Earth's climate is effected by latitude, landforms and a combination of what? | Wind and water |
What type of vegetation is found in a humid continental climate? | grasslands and forests |
Where are moderate climates generally found? | middle latitudes. |
Without wind and water working together the Earth would? | the earth would overheat. |
Orbit | the path followed by an object in a space as it moves around another, such as that of Earth as it moves around the sun |
Revolution | one complete orbit of Earth around the sun; Earth completes one revolution every 365 1/4 days or one year. |
axis | an imaginary line around which a planet turns; Earth turns around its axis which runs between its north and south poles. |
rotation | the spinning motion of Earth, like a top on its axis; Earth takes about 24 hours to rotate one time. |
low latitudes | the region between the Tropic of Cancer and tropic of Capricorn. or the tropics |
high latitudes | the regions between the arctic circle and the north pole and the Antarctic circle and the south pole |
middle latitudes | the regions between the tropic of cancer and the arctic circle |
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