Maps
Patterns of Earth’s Features
Rocks, Minerals, and Soil
Weathering and Erosion
Vocabulary
100

The tool that helps you with directions on a map.

What is a compass rose?

100

What is a mountain range?

What are lines of mountains connected by high ground?

100

Metamorphic rock is…..

What is rock that has been changed by heat, pressure, or a combination of the two?

100

Moving water is one cause of _________________.

What is erosion?

100

Definition of features.

What is a characteristic or part of something?

200

The tool that helps you understand the symbols on the map.

What is a legend or key?

200

What are commonly found near or on plate boundaries?

What is a mountain or volcano?

200

How does sandstone commonly form?

What is by ribbons of different sand?

200

Rain that mixes with pollution in the air when it falls can cause what?

What is chemical weathering?

200

Definition of patterns.

What is something that appears or occurs again and again in the same way?

300

The type of map that shows items in real time.

What is a satellite map?

300

How can a physical map help locate different landforms?

What is that it shows the shape of the landforms?

300

True or false: igneous rock forms when magma cools, then heats up, then cools again.

What is false? It forms when magma cools.

300

True or false: Erosion is the build up of particles in an area when wind or water slows.

What is false? It is deposition.

300

A feature of a rock is also called….

What is a characteristic?

400

The type of map that shows what can be produced or taken from an area.

What is a resource map?

400

How do mountains and volcanoes form?

What is by plates crashing together or shifting against/under one another?

400

What are the properties that scientists use to classify minerals?

What are: color, texture, luster, streak, cleavage, and hardness?

400
When water freezes inside a crack in the rock and expands, breaking it apart, it is an example of _____.

What is physical weathering?

400

Observable information.

What is evidence?

500

Which of these items would be found on a topographical map?

A. Lawton Police Station

B. Mount Scott

C. Cache Road

D. Lake Lawtonka Dam

What is B. Mount Scott?

500

What is a large, flat plain under the ocean called?

What are basins?

500
How are minerals, rocks, and soil related?
What is minerals make up rocks, then rocks weather into the particles that make up soil?
500

Weathering is a _____ change to the land on Earth. 

A. Slow

B. Fast

C. Predictable

D. Mapped 

What is A. Slow?

500

Small pictures that appear on a map.

What are symbols?

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