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Where are you most likely to see a sheet of ice?
Franklin MTS
Equator
North Pole
Rocky MTS
2
What is Isthums?
Narrow strip of land connecting 2 large land areas
A biome
Island
valley
3
Melted Rock
Lava
Sliver
Gold
Magma
4
An area located at the mouth of a river
Delta
Pond
Lake
underground water
5
What is the Continental Self?
Valley
Coast
Cliff
Underwater Plain that borders the continent.
6
Subsystem that consists of the earths water
Biosphere
hydrosphere
atmosphere
litosphere
7
The Panama Canal connects the Atlantic to the Arctic Oceans.
True
False
8
Cold temperate climates have a long summer seasons.
True
False
9
What do you call the center of the Earth?
Litosphere
mantle
Core
crust
10
The sun's heat causes the Earth to constantly orbit around it
False
True
11
A glacier is the smallest of the ice masses
True
False
12
What do you call it when both day and night hemispheres are equal length?
equinox
axis
Winter Solstice
Summer Solstice
13
A year is 368.5 days
False
True
14
What 2 continents are surrounded completely by water?
Asia and Africa
Europe and Africa
Europe and Asia
Australia and Antarctica
15
Process that produces safe drinking water
bottled water
Desalination
Precipitation
Evaporation
16
What mountain range is underwater?
Franklin MTS
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Blue Ridge MTS
Mariana Trench
17
How long does it take plates to move to make landforms?
10 years
1000 years
100 years
1000000 years
18
Occurs on or about June 21st in the North Hemisphere
Fall Solstice
Summer Solstice
Winter Solider
Winter Solstice
19
Water contained inside Earth's crust is called groundwater
False
True
20
One measure for comparing climates is the average daily temperature
False
True
21
Earths crust is made up of 7 enormous tectonic plates.
False
True
22
Why are cities warmer than countrysides?
More Lights
More metal, asphalt, concrete
Parks
more water
23
Why does the earth have daily periods of daylight and darkness?
because of the North and South poles
because of the distance from the sun
because Earth rotates once every 24 hours
because of the Earth axis
24
What is the % of the earth's water?
75
71
85
90
25
Ice sheets cover most of Greenland and Australia.
False
True
26
What is an Axis?
point
plain
Key
imaginary line running through Earth's Center
27
Condensation turns water vapor into a denser liquid or a solid state.
False
True
28
A climate zone
Flats
biosphere
earthquake
Desert
29
Who was the scientist that invented the system that divided the earth in Zones?
Albert Einstein
Sir Isaac Newton
Wladimir Koppen
Boris Karloff
30
What is a tundra?
Hole
a Biome
Milky Way
A Truck
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List the smallest to largest (Oceans)
Arctic,Southern,Indian, Atlantic, Pacific
Pacific, Atlantic, Southern, Indian, Arctic
Atlantic,Pacific, Arctic,Southern, Indian
Southern, Indian, Arctic, Atlantic, Pacific
