Landforms
Vocabulary
Earth
Section One
Mystery
100
Trench
What is a valley in the ocean's floor, the lowest spot in the earth's surface?
100
elevation
What is the height above sea level?
100
core
What is the centr of the earth?
100
Geography
What is the study of the earth and all its varieties?
100
Plate tectonics theory
What is the movement of the earths crust?
200
Plateau
What is a flat area of land at high elevation?
200
fault
What is a crack in the earth's crust?
200
mantle
What is the middle layer of the earth that is the thickest?
200
Landforms
What are the individual features of the land called?
200
Earthquakes, mountians, volcanos,and tsunamis.
What is caused by tectonic plate movements?
300
GIS
What is computr software that helps us get information about a place?
300
crust
What is the thinnest layer of the earth?
300
Environment
What is all of our natural surroundings called?
300
70%
What is the amount of water on the surface of the earth?
400
Isthmus
What is a narrow piece of land that connects two larger pieces of land?
400
weathering
What is the breaking away of surface rock into boulders, gravel and sand?
400
Rock and Magma
What is the mantle made of?
400
Region
What is an area that shares common characteristics?
400
Contiental Shelf
What is a plateau found ?off the coast of a continent
500
strait
What is a narrow body of water between two pieces of land?
500
Physical Geography
What is the study of landforms, water and natural resources?
500
solid/melted metal mostly iron
What is the core made of?
500
GPS
What is a special device that receives signals from satellites to locate absolute location on earth?
500
Climate
What is the average temperature and rainfall that a region receives over a period of time?
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