Unit 4 Vocabulary

A region of the Earth that contains unique plants and animals and is characterized by a distinct climate.

• Biome

• Greenhouse Gas

• Mantle

• Tides

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

The mostly solid part of the Earth that lies between its crust and its core

• Oceanic Ridge

• Mantle

• Glacier

• Morraine

Any gas that traps heat from the Sun, such as carbon dioxide.

• Mantle

• Biome

• Greenhouse Gas

• Estuary

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-5

A person who makes maps

• pirate

• astronomer

• teacher

• cartographer

(parallels) lines that run parallel around the globe, dividing the globe into flat slices; they never meet

• Lines of Latitude

• Lines of Longitude

• Delta

• Coast

(meridians) lines that run from the North to the South pole, dividing the globe into segments; they all meet at the poles

• Lines of Latitude

• Lines of Longitude

• Delta

• Coast

A fan-shaped system of streams that is created when a river splits into many smaller branches before it enters the sea

• estuary

• source

• delta

• tides

A wide channel that forms where a river joins the sea

• delta

• estuary

• source

• coast

The beginning of a river

• delta

• estuary

• source

• coast

The stretch of land that meets the sea

• delta

• estuary

• source

• coast