Landforms
The Hydrosphere
Natural Resources
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Bonus
100
This theory explains how the planet creates landforms by dividing its crust into slow moving plates.
What is plate tectonics?
100
These are artificially made channels for transporting water. Examples include dams, canals and reservoirs.
What is aqueducts?
100
This is a renewable natural resources that is made up of a mixture of plant and animal materials.
What is humus?
100
Here at STA, we use this type of renewable energy source under the ground of the chapel. For an extra 100 points also provide a definition of this term.
What is geothermal energy? the use of earth's interior heat to generate electricity.
100
True or False: More then half of the original wetlands in the United States have been destroyed.
What is True? Preserving the remaining wetlands in the United States is currently a very important environmental issues. Not only do they support enormous ecosystems, but also protect our shores from the damage of hurricanes. The everglades in Florida, which remain the world's largest wetlands, have now decreased to half their original size.
200
This is the tectonically active region within the Pacific Ocean famous for its enormous amounts of earthquakes and active volcanos.
What is the Ring of Fire?
200
This is the movement of water through the hydrosphere caused by solar energy, wind, and gravity
What is the hydrologic cycle?
200
These are the three types of fossil fuels listed in the book.
What is coal, oil, and natural gas?
200
What percent of the earth's water can be found in lakes, rivers, clouds and groundwater?
What is 1%?
200
True or False Floods are caused both by natural and man made factors.
What is true. Flooding is a natural process, but we as humans also increase its velocity through farming practices, clear cutting land and the building of dams and use of concrete (buildings, sidewalks etc).
300
thick masses of ice that builds up from winter' snows and does not melt the following summer
What is a glacier?
300
This is a landscape covered with water for part of or most of the year. It remains home to large populations of fish, shellfish, birds and native plants.
What are wetlands?
300
This is the process by which farmers plant crops in alternating fields in the purpose of providing soil with time to naturally replace nutrients previously drained.
What is crop rotation?
300
What are the benefits and downfalls of reforestation?
What is benefit: reforestation works to replant and grow trees in areas where deforestation has occurred. downfall: new forests can not replace the ecological diversity of old-growth forests
300
About 200 million years ago, the earth remained a supercontinent with one single ocean and all seven continents connected as one. What was this called?
What is Pangaea?
400
The most active fault in the United States is the New Madrid.
What is False? The most active fault in the United States is the San Andreas Fault in California.
400
Any small stream or river that flows into a larger stream or river.
What is a tributary?
400
These are non-renewable natural resources formed from the remains of ancient plants and animals.
What is fossil fuels?
400
True of False: Weathering is the movement of surface material from one location to another.
What is False? Explanation: Erosion is the movement of surface material from one location to another Weathering is the slow break down and decay of rocks. An example would be when rock is broken down into tiny particles of gravel, sand and mud (called sediments).
400
True or False. The native americans are notorious for being the first in the United States to use the process of crop rotating.
What is False? The native americans used a process called mixed-cropping, which involved planting two or more plants simultaneously in the same field. Crops work together to increase overall productivity; balance the input and output of soil nutrients, prevent weeds, decrease insects, protect against harsh climates, and prevent plant diseases. ex: corn, beans, and squash
500
What are the three types of Landforms?
What are plains, plateaus and mountains?
500
Explain the term headwaters.
What are runoffs from mountains and hills that form small streams of water that eventually come together to form larger streams and rivers?
500
List the three main causes of deforestation.
What is logging for wood, clearing for farmland, and cutting for wood fuel?
500
Double Jeopardy! Name the three types of plate boundaries!
What is divergent, convergent, and transform?
500
This is a common example of humus being made in one's own backyard, but more importantly proof that it remains a renewable resource. In class, Mrs. Rueschhoff admitted to making her own in the hopes of enriching the soil of her flower beds this spring.
What is compost?
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