A | B |
latitude lines | lines that go East-West but measure North and South of the equator |
longitude lines | lines that go North-South but measure East and West of the Prime Meridian |
latitude; longitude | When finding coordinates of a location, the _______ is first, and _________ is second |
contour lines | The closer the _________ lines, the steeper the slope |
V's | Contour lines that form _____ and point upstream when there are rivers and creeks present |
contour | The increase in elevation between two adjacent contour lines is the _______ interval. |
prime meridian | zero degrees longitude |
prime meridian | longitude line that runs through Greenwich, England |
equator | line that runs horizontally around Earth in the middle |
equator | zero degrees latitude |
igneous rocks | type of rock from volcanoes |
extrusive igneous | type of rock from volcanoes that cooled outside Earth's crust |
intrusive igneous | type of rock from volcanoes that cooled inside Earth's crust |
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto | Name the nine planets in order |
pluto | which of the planets has been demoted? |
tail | which part of the comet points away from the sun |
moon | what satellite formed when a huge asteroid struck Earth? |
oort cloud | most comets travel in a distant region from the sun called |
shooting stars | another name for meteors that enter Earth's atmosphere |
third | Earth is the _______ planet from the Sun |
dirty | comets are composed of _______ left over from the formation of our solar system. |