Mapping Earth's Surface
Brown lines on a topographic map.
What are contour lines?
The inner most layer of Earth's interior.
What is the inner core?
The transfer of thermal energy by electromagnetic waves.
What is radiation?
Theory that says continents slowly moved to their present-day positions.
What is continental drift?
Common landforms resulting from erosion and deposition.
What are valleys and beaches?
The correct sequence for plotting a location on a map.
What are degrees, minutes, and seconds?
Formed when small pieces of other rocks are deposited and cemented together.
What are sedimentary rocks?
Good conductors.
The developer of the sea-floor spreading theory.
Who is Harry Hess?
The developer of the continental drift theory.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
Used to locate valuable minerals or understand earthquakes.
What are geologic maps?
Carved by a river.
What is a canyon of V-shaped valley?
The force between surfaces that opposes the motion of an object.
What is friction?
Technology used to map the seafloor using sound waves.
What is sonar?
The energy a book has as it falls from a table.
What is kinetic energy?
Imaginary gridlines listed first when plotting a location on a map.
What is latitude?
Carved by a glacier.
What is a U-shaped Valley? or What is the U-shaped valley in Yosemite National Park?
A disturbance in a material that transfers energy and not matter.
What is a wave?
Rocks found at the center of the mid-ocean ridge.
What are young rocks? or What are new rocks?
The transfer of thermal energy by collisions between particles in matter.
What is conduction?
Samples retrieved by geologists from deep within the ground.
What are cores?
Forms because of high heat and pressure without melting.
What are metamorphic rocks?
The transfer of thermal energy by the movement of matter from one place to another.
What is convection?
Two pieces of evidence for Seafloor Spreading?
What are magnetic polarity reversals and magnetic stripes on the seafloor?
The four pieces of evidence for continental drift.
What are the fit of the continents, fossil evidence, rock types and mountain ranges, and climate evidence?