Topographic Maps
The Earth
Continental Drift
Boundaries
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100
What shaped is formed to show water flow?
What is a triangle?
100
What does weathering do to landforms?
What is reduce the size of the landform and round the edges?
100
What were the first two pieces of evidence that led to the theory of continental drift?
What are similar fossils on different continents and the shape of the continents?
100
Name the 3 main types of boundaries.
What is convergent, divergent, and transform?
100
True or False Continents move through the ocean floor.
What is false?
200
What direction does water flow in relation to the shape?
What is the opposite direction?
200
What does a delta look like?
What is a fan shaped structure at the end of a river?
200
Who proposed the first theory of continental drift?
Who is Wegener?
200
Name the three types of convergent boundaries.
What are oceanic to oceanic, continental to continental, and oceanic to continental?
200
What landforms could you expect to find at a divergent boundary?
What are rift valleys and mid-ocean ridges?
300
How can you tell steepness on a topographic map?
What are the lines that are close together?
300
What forms a delta?
What is water carries particles and deposits them at the mouth of a river?
300
True or false All plates move in the same direction.
What is false?
300
Where is the newest crust on earth found?
What is on the ocean floor at mid-ocean ridges?
300
What landforms would you expect to find at oceanic to continental convergent boundaries?
What are trenches, subduction zones, and coastal volcanic mountains?
400
What landform would you find between two hills?
What is a valley?
400
What would happen to an extinct volcano over thousands of years? What would it look like?
What is weather and eroded away? It would smooth out and get shorter over the years.
400
Who helped prove continental drift by discovering sea-floor spreading?
Who is Hess?
400
Where does molten rock come from that forms a mid-ocean ridge?
What is the mantle or asthenosphere?
400
What landforms could you expect to find at oceanic to oceanic convergent boundaries?
What are volcanic island arcs, trenches, and subduction zones?
500
What is a contour interval and how can you determine a contour interval?
What the difference between contour lines on a topographic map? You can use the key or subtract two known contour indexes (labeled contour lines).
500
Which layer of the earth has the property of plasticity (moves like a liquid)?
What is the asthenosphere?
500
What provides the movement that causes tectonic plates to move?
What are convection currents?
500
What occurs at a transform boundary?
What are earthquakes?
500
What landforms could you expect to find at continental to continental convergent boundaries? Give at least one example.
What are folded mountains? The Alps or the Himalayas.
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