Earth's Structure
What are the three layers of the earth?
crust, mantle, core
Powerful forces within the earth cause what?
Earthquakes
This is the largest lake in the world
This term is used to describe people’s hard work to make a living.
Industry
What are the three major landforms?
Mountains, plains, plateaus
What is water on the earth's surface called?
According to this theory, the plates crash into and pull apart from one another.
Plate Tectonics Theory
This is the largest freshwater lake in the world
Lake Baikal
This is the process of planting seeds and harvesting that provides a reliable food supply.
Farming
This landform is known to be the best agricultural land in the world
This physical system consists of all the different areas on the earth where life can exist and all the living organisms that live there.
Biosphere
The process is responsible for creating U-shaped valleys called fjords
Glaciation
This river has the largest drainage basin in the world.
Amazon River
The invention of gasoline engines turned this into the most important mining product
Petroleum
This occurred when the supercontinent broke apart and its pieces were set in motion to their current locations.
Continental Drift
This occurred when the supercontinent broke apart and its pieces were set in motion.
Continental Drift
The Bible teaches that most of the earth’s features were changed because of a violent upheaval in the earth's crust called what?
Cataclysm
The world ocean consists of what five oceans?
Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Southern
Tourism is an example of what level of industry?
Tiertiary
This process carries away soil, forming sand dunes and barrier islands
Erosion
What is the heat transfer that occurs when particles carry thermal energy as they move from one place to another?
Convection
These deep cracks in the earth's surface are an evidence of tectonic activity
Faults / Fault Lines
Some geographers contend that there is a fifth ocean around what part of the world?
Antarctica
This is a result of the combination of multiple metals.
Alloys
This is the process by which mountains are formed when thin, dense oceanic crust slowly slides beneath continental crust
Subduction