EARTH CHANGES VOCAB TEST

To go around a star, planet, or moon.

• AXIS

• ATMOSPHERE

• ORBIT

• REVOLUTION

1.  an imaginary line that runs through the Earth from the North to South Pole. 

• ORBIT

• AXIS

• REVOLUTION

• ATMOSPHERE

1. When Earth completes one trip around the Sun.

• ORBIT

• AXIS

• REVOLUTION

• ATMOSPHERE

1. a blanket of gasses that surround the Earth.

• ORBIT

• AXIS

• REVOLUTION

• ATMOSPHERE

1. when the Sun reaches its maximum or minimum height that is marked by the winter or summer solstice. 

• SOLSTICE

• EQUINOX

• CLIMATE

• PRECIPITATION

when the sun crosses the Equator.

• SOLSTICE

• EQUINOX

• CLOMATE

• PRECIPITATION

1. long term pattern of weather in a particular area. 

• SOLSTICE

• EQUINOX

• CLIMATE

• PRECIPITATION

1. rain, hail, snow, sleet, and other forms of water falling from the sky.

• SOLSTICE

• EQUINOX

• CLIMATE

• PRECIPITATION

When rain passess over a particular area because of shelter from hills or mountains. 

• RAIN SHADOW

• CONTINENT

• TECTONIC PLATES

• FAULT

1. A large area of land that has countries, or they can also be a country, like Australia. 

• RAIN SHADOW

• CONTINENT

• TECTONIC PLATES

• FAULT