Earth's Surface Rivers Other bodies of water climate Everything else
100
What is a landform?
Every variation in the landscape.
100
What is a tributary?
A river that feeds another river.
100
What is a harbor?
A sheltered body of deep water near the shore.
100
What is the slant of sunlight and the tilt of the earth?
The reason we have seasons.
100
What is a mountain system?
When many mountains are together.
200
What is a plain?
Wide area of level land
200
What is the Nile River?
The longest river in the world.
200
What is a wetland?
An area of stagnant water.
200
What is weather?
The atmospheric conditions of an area at any given moment.
200
What is Plate Tectonics?
The theory that says that the earth’s surface is broken into masses of land that crash into and pull apart from each other releasing energy that causes volcanic activity and earthquakes
300
What is a plateau?
Wide areas of flat land that rise abruptly above the surrounding land.
300
What is the Amazon River?
The river with the most amount of water in the world.
300
What is a sea?
Arms of the ocean partially enclosed by land.
300
What is climate?
The weather conditions of an area over a long period time.
300
What is uniformitarianism?
The idea that the forces that shaped the earth as we now see it operated at the same rate at which they do today.
400
What is the Continental Drift Theory?
The theory that says a huge landmass called Pangea eventually broke apart to form the continents as we see them today.
400
What is discharge?
The amount of water that flows from a river.
400
What are bogs, marshes and swamps?
The three types of wetlands.
400
What is arid?
"Lacking moisture", it is the term used to refer to dry areas that receive 10 or less inches of rain.
400
What are seasons, winds, and ocean currents?
the three ways God has provided to distribute the earth’s thermal energy?
500
What is faulting, folding and volcanic activity?
The three ways mountains are formed.
500
What is a river system?
A river and all its tributaries.
500
What is the Caspian Sea?
The largest lake in the world.
500
What is permafrost?
The soil that is permanently frozen in the polar or frigid zones.
500
What is alluvium?
Nutrient-rich soil deposited by rivers.






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