Vocab Words 9-8-11 Word Scramble
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An area of the earth's surface definite shape; mountains and hills are examples of landforms. | Landform |
Usually a landform that rises more than 2000ft above sea level and is wide at the bottom and narrow at the peak. | Mountain |
A landform that rises above the surrounding land and that has a rounded top; a hill is lower and usually less steep than mountains. | Hill |
A large mostly flat area that rises above the surrounding land; at least one side has a steep slope. | Plateau |
The theory that the earth's crust is made of huge, slowly moving slabs of rock called plates. | Plate Tectonics |
In geography a huge section of earth's crust. | Plate |
The breaking down of rocks by wind,rain, or ice. | Weathering |
A process by which water; wind or ice wears away landforms and carries the material to another place. | Erosion |
The multi-layered band of gases that surround the Earth. | Atmosphere |
The path followed by an object in space as it moves around the sun. | Orbit |
One complete orbit of earth around the sun. The earth completes one revolution every 365 1/4th days, or one year. | Revolution |
An imaginary line around which a planet turns around. Earth turns around its axis which runs between its North and South Poles. | Axis |
The spinning motion of earth like a top on its axis. Earth takes about 24 hours to rotate one time. | Rotation |
The region between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. | Low Latitude |
The regions between the Tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle and the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle. | Middle Latitude |
The regions between the Arctic Circle and the North Pole and the Antarctic Circle and the South Pole. | High Latitude |
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