unit 1 coach thompson vocab

a set of closeley grouped islands

• atmosphere

• biosphere

• monsoon

• archipelago

layers of gases immediantley surrounding the earth

• atmosphere

• hemisphere

• biosphere

• lithosphere

parts on earth where plants and animals live

• biosphere (includes atmosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere)

• weather

• monsoon

• el nino

typical weather conditions at a particular location as observed over time

• climate

• weather

• continental drift

• green house affect

the belife that continents where once connected at once but then split apart over a millions of years

• continental drift

• continental shelf

• climate

• isthsmus

earths surface from the edge of a continent to the deep part of the ocean

• continental shelf

• continental drift

• fjord

• perma frost

a weather pattern created by the warming of waters off the west coast of south america

• el nino

• la nina

• erosion

• lithosphere

immagianairy line that circles the globe and splits it into northern and southern parts

• equator

• equinox

• prime merridian

• fjord

each of the two days in a year on which days and nights are equal; meaning a beggining to spring or autumn

• equator

• equinox

• isthmus

• monsoon

result of weathering on matter; by wind water ice or gravity

• erosion

• greenhouse effect