Boundaries
Layers of the Earth
Topographic Maps
Weathering
Erosion & Deposition
100
Alfred Wagner's theory that the world used to be known as PANGAEA and then the continents started to slowly drift apart.
What is continental drift?
100
Earth's hottest layer.
What is the (inner) core? OR Who are Mr. Bermúdez's students?!
100
These lines represent elevation.
What are contour lines?
100
The breaking down of rock on Earth's surface into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
100
Definition of erosion.
What is the process by which sediments are picked up and MOVED to a new place.
200
Name the 3 main types of boundaries.
What is convergent, divergent, and transform?
200
The crust is made up of two types of plates.
What are oceanic and continental plates?
200
The direction of water flowing.
What is high elevation to low elevation?
200
The three different types of weathering.
What is physical, chemical, and biological weathering?
200
The 3 different ways that sediments are moved.
What is water, wind, and ice?
300
What landforms could you expect to find at a divergent boundary?
What are rift valleys and mid-ocean ridges?
300
Convection currents occur inside this part of the mantle.
What is the asthenosphere?
300
Two contour lines are very close together.
What is steepness?
300
Weathering changes Earth's surface...(slowly/quickly)
What is slowly?
300
The new LOCATION of sediments.
What is deposition?
400
These RIDGES cause the formation of a volcano.
What is a mid-ocean ridge?
400
Due to large temperature differences, this is a solid but flows like a liquid.
What are convection currents?
400
Two contour lines very far apart.
What is a gentle slope?
400
Water can weather rock by: A. eroding soil B. by freezing and melting
What is B. freezing and melting?
400
The definition of biological weathering.
What is when living organisms break down rocks. Ex: tree roots splitting through rock.
500
The reason two tectonic plates move.
What is an unbalanced force?
500
Litosphere (definition AND location).
What is the rigid, solid outer layer that contains the crust and the top mantle and the least dense of all the layers?
500
Definition of an interval.
What is the difference between one contour line to another? OR What is the topographic map key?
500
The best soccer team.
Who are Las Chivas?
500
Examples of __________: river delta and sand dune.
What are examples of deposition?
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