Unit 1
The month where the earth is closest to the sun
What is January?
Two tectonic plates push together
What is a convergent plate boundary?
97% of water on earth
What is the percentage of salt water
The number of people, plants, animals, or species in a designated place
What is population?
Layers of ash and thick lava form a tall cone
What is a volcano?
Rays that hit at a flat surface
What is a Direct ray?
A 240km long north American plate that moves south-west, it stretch's and the area of crust pulls it apart forming the roman fault.
What is the Wasatch fault?
The water supply is frozen in glaciers and nobody lives there.
Why is the water supply unavailable Antarctica?
Information that's collected every 5 years for the government by mailing questions to peoples homes
What is a census?
The shaking of the earths surface caused by the quick release of energy from the earths crust
What is an earthquake?
These lines run east to west
What is lines of Latitude?
The movement of tectonic plates
What is the cause of an earthquake?
A planning strategy that was created to protect farmland and environmentally sensitive areas
What is the greenbelt?
The term developed or industrialized
What is the term used to talk about countries with good economies?
These lines run North to South
What is lines of longitude?
5 requirements for a general political map
What is Borders & names, capital cities, key features, levels of government, and color coding?
4 forces that affect rock
What is cooling, weathering & erosion, heat & pressure, and heat causing melting?
Farms cattle, grain, oilseed, they are big and highly mechanized.
What is extensive farming?
The measurement of human impact on the earth
what is an ecological footprint?
The day in the northern hemisphere that gets the most sunlight
what is the summer solstice?
The circumference of the earth at the equator
What is 40075.8843km?
The process known as subduction
What happens when tectonic plates move up?
this industry requires an appropriate climate, soil, and existing forestry to provide seeds
What is the forestry industry?
The responsibilities we all have to the environment and resources left by our ancestors
what is stewardship?
The 3 different types of rocks
What is Igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?