Definition
How is a mountain created?
By moving tectonic plates=Mountain
Mainly flat land found at high elevation and found in mountainious regions. Another name for this landform is called tablelands
What is a plateau?
Areas of very old rock that make up the continents. They were formed from ancient mountain regions that have been worn down over millions of years?
What are Shields?
How do people change landforms?
What is Mining, Agriculture construction crews cut down hills or fill in valleys to create level surfaces for roads and railways.
Name a type of plate boundary we learned in class
Convergent
Divergent
Transform
A way of getting useful minerals
like extracting bauxite, iron, gold, copper, etc.
What is Mining
What can help to monitor volcanic eruptions and earthquakes?
What is improving structures and technologies?
What type of erosion leads to the development of a valley?
What is water erosion?
What type of map includes detailed, accurate graphic representations of features that appear on the Earth's surface as well as a line on the map joining points of equal height above or below sea level.
What is a Topographic map
What is a Seismograph
An area of low land between areas of higher land. Often have a river or stream flowing through them in the direction of the slope. They are created in several ways?
What are Valleys
What can help with improving earthquakes?
What is improving structures, such as building structures that can withstand an Earthquake?
How do people create and change the land
Agriculture
Homes
Transportation
Water bodies filled in
Construction
Rice terraces in the Philippines
What natural disasters is caused by plates meeting underneath the earth and once the plates meet, pressure builds, and releases a series of shockwaves, which cause the earth’s ground to move slightly?
What is an Earthquake?
This landform is located on every continent. Usually at low elevations. Some were formed at the bottom of what were once seas.
What is a Plain?
What is the process of turning disturbed land into its former or other desired state.
What type of erosion creates the ripples in the sand of a desert?
What is Wind erosion?
What is the ring of fire?
What is the epicentre?
The ring of fire is an area that is surrounded by volcanoes and is a place where major earthquakes happened, and still could happen. It’s placed around the Pacific Ocean, and where the Pacific plate meets the Eurasian, Australian, and American plates.
The place where the main shock occurs is called an epicenter
The epicenter is the location on the Earth's surface that marks where the earthquake was initiated.