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37 Cards in this Set
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The solar system consists of the eath and the other plants that _____ aoround the sun.
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Revolve
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Each of our solar systems ___ planets has its own orbit around the sun.
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eight
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Earth is a solid terrestrail planet unlike saturn witch is a ____ giant planet
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gas
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the asteriod ___ is a region of space between mars and jupiter that conatins many small asteroids
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belt
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earth is not a perfect sphere it is wider around the ___ than it is around many small asteriods.
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equator
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about ___ percent of the eaths surface is water
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70
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ocean basins are part of the eaths ____
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lithosphere
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the part of the earth where life exists is called the ____
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biosphere
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natrual features of the earths surface are ___
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landforms
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there are seven major landmasses on eargt called ____
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contenitnts
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a continental shelf is part of land that extends under the
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ocean
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the highest point on the earth is ___
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mount everest
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the lowest point on dry land is the shore of the ___
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dead sea
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the ____ in the pacific is the deepest point on earth
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mariana trench
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how many miles away is the sun from earth?
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93 millon
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small, reguler shaped like planets
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astreods
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icey dust particals, frozen gasses
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comets
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chunks of rock and iron
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meteroids
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a narrow strip of land that connects 2 larger peices of land areas
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isthmus
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large peice of land surrounded 3 sides by water
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penninsula
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bodies of water that make up the earth
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hydrosphere
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land makes up this part of the earth
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lithosphere
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air we breath
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atmosphere
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part of earth that suppots air
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biosphere
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underwater extensions of the coastal plans
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contential shelf
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super hot but solid center of planet
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core
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next to outer core thick layer of hot dense rock
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mantel
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physical processes that create many of the earths physical featers
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plate tectonics
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sea plates dive beneath lighter plates
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sunduction
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sea plates pull arpart
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spreading
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bends in layers of rocks
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fold
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when plates grind or slie past each other and make cracks
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faults
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when glaciers melt and recede in some places they keave behind large piles of rocks and debris
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moraines
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an area in the pacific ocean, where they have more volcanuc acticvity
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Ring of Fire
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3 types of erison
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Wind erosion
glacial erosion water erosion |
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what % of water in the ocean salt?
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97
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what sea seperates europe and africa
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mediterranean
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