Volcanoes & Tectonic Plates
True or False: Thin lava causes bigger explosions than thick lava.
What is false?
True or False: Human activity does NOT have a negative impact on the environment or land-forms.
What is false?
Most ocean life is found here.
What is the continental shelf?
This map show the contour elevation of land-forms using lines.
What is a topographic map?
Volcanoes are usually found here.
What is near tectonic plate boundaries?
Name 1 factor that can cause landslides.
What is the slope of the mountain or large amounts of water or rain?
This is the deepest part of the ocean.
What is a trench?
A topographic map shows a steep slope this way.
What is lines close together?
This area around the Pacific Ocean is where many volcanoes are found.
What is the ring of fire?
Give one example of a rapid change to a land-form.
What is a landslide, tornado, hurricane, forest fire, volcano, or tsunami?
This is the gooey, decaying stuff that slides down and settles on the ocean floor.
What is ooze?
A topographic map shows a gentle slope this way.
What is lines far apart?
This is often called the "super-continent" or one landmass made of all the continents.
What is Pangaea?
Give 2 examples of slow changes to landforms.
What is wind, water, erosion, root wedging, and ice wedging?
This giant tidal wave is caused by an underwater earthquake.
What is a Tsunami?
A topographic map shows a valley or river this way.
What is lines in a V-shape?
This is caused by tectonic plates rubbing against each other.
What is an earthquake?
This can cause rocks to break down.
What is frozen water (ice wedging), roots of plants (root wedging), or acid rain?
Name at least two different ocean floor land-forms.
What is a volcano, ridge, trench, guyot, sea mount, canyon, island, plain?
The wearing away of rock and soil.
What is weathering and erosion?