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________ is the part of earth that includes all life forms.
Biosphere
_____ is 23.5 degrees
tilt
______ is warm low-latitude areas near the equator.
tropics
________ is one complete spin of earth on its axis.
Rotation
_____ is time when earths poles are not pointed toward or away from the sun.
Equinox
______ is all the biological, chemical, and physical conditions that interact and affect life.
Environment
______ is one elliptical orbit of eath around the sun.
Revolution
_______ is energy from the sun.
Solar energy
_______ is itime that earths poles point at their greatest angle toward or away from the sun.
solstice
________ is the solid crust of the planet.
lithosphere
________ is the study of weather.
meteorology
______ is an imaginary line that circles the globe halfway between earths north pole and south pole.
equator
_______ are two halves of the globe.
hemispheres
______ is earths seven large landmasses.
continents
______ are different ways of presenting the round earth on flat maps.
map projections
_______ is the meeting of two air masses of widely different temperatures or moisture levels.
front
_____ is the amount of water vapor in the air.
Humidity
_______ are the weather conditions in a geographic area over a long period of time.
Climate
______ is a community of living and non living organisms.
ecosystem
_______ is the drier, leeward side of a mountain.
Rain Shadow
____ is any center of low pressure.
Cyclone
______ is dry.
arid
_______________ is the increasing temperature of earth over the last few decades.
Global warming