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7th grade geography vocab lesson 2

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  • Center of the earth, believed to be liquid
    Core
  • What is wearing away at the earth’s surface?
    Erosion
  • What is the International Date Line?
    180 degrees longitude
  • What is the outmost part of the earth? Hint - we walk on it
    Crust
  • What is an earthquake?
    Seismic waves that cause destruction of the earth’s crust
  • What is a volcano?
    Structure created when forced move oceanic crust beneath continental crust with the explosion of lava or gas.
  • What is mantle?
    A majority of the earth below the crust.
  • What is the process involving the movement of huge blocks of Earth below the surface?
    Plate Techtonics
  • What is a time zone?
    World division of time, an hour apart
  • What is a plateau?
    Large, mostly flat area that rises above the surrounding area.
  • What is melted rock in the interior of the Earth?
    Magma
  • What do you call seams between the plates?
    Faults
  • What is rotation?
    One complete spin of the earth on its axis
  • What is the process in which wind, water, and ice remove rock and break it into small pieces and displace them?
    Weathering
  • What is the term for tilting of the earth towards or away from the sun?
    Solstice
  • What is revolution?
    One complete orbit of the Earth around the sun.
  • What is the Milky Way
    Our galaxy, it includes the sun, planets, and stars.
  • What is equinox
    Two times of the year with equal day and night
  • What is the process of dropping eroded material called?
    Deposition
  • What is Prime Meridian?
    Zero degrees longitude
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