Earth’s Dimensions and Navigation (Chapter 2)

Vocabulary Review

Remember to wait for the vocabulary word to pop up! Can you guess it before it comes up? PB2009

LongitudeAngular measurement East and West of

the Equator

http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/images/globe5.jpg

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Latitude

Angular measurement North and South of the Equator

http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/images/globe5.jpg

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Zero degrees longitude

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/earth/images/latlon800labels.gif

Prime Meridian

The standard global time

Greenwich Mean Time

http://www.naked-science.com/userfiles/image/time_zone_map.JPG

http://www.earthscienceeducation.com/creative_science/main_images/Chemistry_KS4/Chem_KS4_plenary_lithosphere.jpg

Solid rock layer

Lithosphere

http://sci.gallaudet.edu/Mary/lithosphere.jpg

HydrosphereA very thin film of all of the water

that surrounds the Earth

http://sos.noaa.gov/images/fullsize/Ocean/seacurrents.jpg

Prefix Alert!!Hydro means

water

Atmosphere

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/earth/images/atmosphere_mural.jpg

Outer shell of gases that surrounds the Earth

http://www.daviddarling.info/images/Mars_Earth_atmosphere_comparison.jpg

http://www.bangor.ac.uk/~oss006/meteorology/troposphere.jpg

http://www.space.gc.ca/asc/img/atmosphere-couche.jpg

The layer of the atmosphere where weather occurs

Troposphere

Stratosphere

A layer of gas approximately 10-30 miles up in our atmosphere

http://www.space.gc.ca/asc/img/atmosphere-couche.jpg

http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/acdisc/images/Stratosphere_Diagram.jpeg

Slightly flattened

Oblate

http://www.librarising.com/hollow/images/oblate.jpg

http://www.parade.com/export/sites/default/food/recipe-tips/kitchen/images/refimages/bread/prep/shaping/ring/ring_2.jpg

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