Maps before the apps
A person who makes maps
What is a cartographer?
Large boulders deposited by glaciers
What are erratics?
This is the stretch of land that meets the sea
What is coast?
These are the 3 layers of the Earth
What are crust, mantle, and core?
this is an area where a given organism lives, like a cave or coral reef
What is habitat?
these imaginary lines meet at the north and south pole to divide the globe into segments
what are lines of longitude?
Glaciers form in high mountain ranges and also in these 2 places in the arctic biome
Where are the North and South poles?
starting point of a river
What is source?
this element makes up Earth's hot and molten core
What is iron?
*will accept nickel
this is a larger region with a distinct climate which includes several smaller habitats like arctic or rainforest
What is a biome?
this part of the globe is HOT but 0 degrees latitude
what is the equator?
these 2 water forms are compacted together under pressure to form a glacier
what are snow and ice?
Before water enters the sea it forms this fan shaped system of small streams
What is delta?
this sometimes disastrous trembling is caused at the brittle surface rock when heat is carried up from hot circulating mantle
what is earthquake?
This weather word determines the boundaries of different biomes
What is climate?
named after a constellation its coordinates are 20 degrees south and 0 degrees longitude.
What is tropic of capricorn?
clue that a glacier was once present in a valley
What is a morraine?
*or will accept deep, rounded U-shaped valley or drumlin (mounds of clay left by glacier) or kettle (deep pond)
this is the circular pattern of warm water from the tropics moving up northward where it cools and sinks back towards the south
What is ocean current?
these move because they float on of the mantle
What are plates?
*will accept continents
this is a group of animals and plants that live together in mutually beneficial relationships
what is a community?
This Flemish cartographer devised a fairly accurate way to represent the Earth's surface on a map in 1538
Who is Gerhard Mercator?
After a glacier has melted, these lines form on the sides of a valley
What are striations?
this natural satellite's gravitational pull has an affect on the oceans on Earth
What is the moon?
opposites attract in these strong lines created by electric currents circulating within the molten outer core.
What is Earth's magnetic field?
This biome where more water evaporates than falls as precipitation makes up one fifth of the world
What is desert?