Types of Landforms
Similar to a mountain, but erupts and allows molten lava to roll out
What is a volcano?
Name the missing body of water: Superior, Michigan, Ontario, Eerie...
The process by which landforms become covered in ice sheets and when moved causes changes to landforms
What is glaciation?
The 4 spheres of the Earth
What are the Geo, Bio, Hydro and Atmospheres?
Learning about why people migrate from one country to another country
What is the study of human geography?
2 landforms related to water
What are islands and deltas?
What is 10?
7 major and several minor plates within the Earth that collide and result in landform creation or changes
What are tectonic forces / tectonic plates?
A concept coined by Albert Wegener about the separation of one large land mass and the continents we know today
What is continental drift?
The Earth's supercontinent
What is Pangea?
Erosion of mountains OR magma that swells up below the surface of the Earth
What is a plateau?
Lines on a topography map
One of the most well-known Land Reclamation Projects in human history
Where are the Palm Islands, Dubai?
Materials on Earth that are valuable to people and nature
What are natural resources?
Name 4 changes to landforms
What is mining, land reclamation projects, glaciation, erosion, weathering, tectonic forces?
When more water and precipitation evaporate into the air than what is returned to the climate
What is a desert?
An oceanic trench located in the western Pacific Ocean
Where is the Mariana Trench?
The process of earth's surfaces being removed from one location and deposited to another (soil, rock, etc.)
What is erosion + deposition?
The study of Earth's landforms, features and natural resources?
What is physical geography?
A land formation that lends itself to active tourism in West Coast Canada.
What are mountains?
Vegetation growing in a low space, usually at the bottom of hills or mountains?
What is a valley?
Contour lines that are relatively far apart from one another indicate...
What is land that is flat / flatter?
When bodies of water are filled with rock and cement, matching the heights of new and old land areas
What is land reclamation?
Movement described as tectonic plates pulling apart from one another
What is divergent shift?
What is human geography?