Chapter 5 Flashcards
A column of air that spins rapidly
Lesson 4
Toronto
Can be fueled by dry plants and spread by wind
Fire
Can caus natural forest fires
Lightning
A sliding ground caused when a hillside is soaked with rainwater
Landslide
The force that pulls rocks and other objects from a high place to a low place
Gravity
The northern or southern half of earth
Lesson 1
Hemisphere
What earth does every 24 hours on its axis
Rotate
The path earth takes around the sun or the path moon takes around the sun
Orbit
What occurs because earth orbits the sun on a tilted axis
Seasons
An invisible line that runs through the middle of an object
Axis
A long, narrow crack in earths crust is called a
Lesson 2
Fault
A tall landform that rises to a peak is called a
Mountain
A tool that measures the waves from an earthquake is a
Seismograph
A bend in rock layers is a
Fold
A high landform with a flat top is a
Plateau
Earth completes one rotation every Hours
Lesson 3
24
As earth The sun appears to rise
Rotates
A fire can be caused by
Lightning
Plants and animals lose their
Habitats
Usually Torontos spin off of several
Winds