Landforms
Not Your Average Dinner Plates
Global Disasters!
Responding To Disasters
Critical Thinking
100
A mountainous landform though which fluid escapes
What is a volcano?
100
The theory that Earth's crust is made up of several rigid pieces.
What is plate tectonics?
100
The place on Earth's surface directly above where the main shock occurs.
What is the epicentre?
100
The Transamerica Pyramid of San Francisco is an example of this response to disasters.
What are improved structures?
100
Different ideas groups of people have about developing an area.
What is geographic perspective?
200
Low levels of land between areas of higher land.
What are valleys?
200
The outer, solid layer of Earth.
What is the lithosphere?
200
A tool for measuring the magnitude of movements of the ground.
What is a seismograph?
200
The people improving structures.
What are engineers?
200
The connection between human activity and the natural environment.
What are interrelationships?
300
Areas of old rock that make up continents. An old landform in Canada.
What is a shield?
300
You can find plates floating here, on a layer of semi-molten rock.
What is the asthenosphere?
300
This occurs when transform plate boundaries grind past each other.
What is an earthquake?
300
The amount of energy released during an earthquake.
What is magnitude?
300
A location compared to other places around it.
What is relative location?
400
Generally flat to gently rolling stretches of land.
What is a plain?
400
A circular motion created when warmer material rises and draws down cooler material.
What is convection flow?
400
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is an example of this divergent plate boundary.
What is a volcano?
400
Where most of the world's volcanoes are located.
What is the Ring of Fire?
400
Patterns in how something is changing or developing.
What are trends?
500
Topographic maps show us elevation of land.
What are contour lines?
500
A place where two plates of the lithosphere come together.
What is a convergent boundary?
500
Classifying earthquakes through this method.
What is a Richter Scale?
500
Two forces that change landforms.
What are human forces and natural forces?
500
The importance of a place and those things around it.
What is spatial significance?
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