Coordinates
What is the movement of the Earth as it turns on its own axis?
Rotation
What do you call true and proportionate representations of the Earth on a flat surface?
Maps
What do you call the process of tectonic-plate movement that forms mountains?
Orogeny
What do you call these landforms that are created by the emission of molten materials (lava), ash and gases to the surface from the interior of the Earth's crust?
Volcanoes
Where did one of the most famous volcanic eruptions in 79 A.D. occurred?
Mount Vesuvius
What is the movement of the Earth around the Sun?
Revolution
What are used to show the Earth's sphere on a flat surface?
Map projections
What is the lithosphere made up of?
the crust and the upper part of the mantle
What are sudden powerful movements of the Earth's crust caused by seismic waves?
Earthquake
What relief is created by rivers?
Fluvial relief
What is the angular distance between any point on Earth and the prime or Greenwich?
Longitude
What kind of map shows the smaller areas, usually cities, towns, urban infrastructure or buildings?
Street maps
What type of relief occupies most of the emerged land that formed horizontal landforms predominate such as (plains, plateaus and valleys)?
Continental Relief
What are these enormous waves that are caused by earthquakes under the sea?
Tsunami
How many hours is the time difference of Spain and the Philippines?
6 hours
What is the angular distance between any point on Earth and the Equator?
Latitude
What shows the interior organisation of buildings?
Plans
What type of relief is shaped by agents from oceans and continents?
Coastal relief
What is the main agent in shaping relief?
Water
What are the four cardinal points that are useful in identifying directions?
- North
- South
- East
- West
(1) What do you call the imaginary circles parallel to the Equator?
(2) What do you call imaginary semi-circles going from pole to pole?
(1) Parallels
(2) Meridians
What are imaginary vertical strips on the Earth's sphere of 15 degrees longitude each?
Time zones
Give the materials that are found in the inner core and both in the outer core and mantle?
Inner core - materials are in a solid state
Outer core - molten rocks called magma
Give 4 other agents which help shape relief?
- Wind
- Extreme
- Temperatures
- Action of human beings
What are the three basic interaction or movements of plates?
- Divergent: occurs when two tectonic plates move away from each other
- Convergent: occurs when plates move towards each other and collide
- Transform: where plates slide sideways past each other