Which is more accurate:
a) 2D map b) 3D map (globe)
b) 3D map (globe)
100
The coldest biome.
What is the tundra?
100
The name of Earth's first layer.
What is the crust?
100
The German scientist who came up with the Continental Drift theory?
Who is Alfred Wegener?
100
The name for colliding plate movement (come together) and sometimes form mountains.
What is convergent?
200
The name of a person who makes maps.
What is a cartographer
200
Very dry places (not always hot. e.g. Gobi)
What is a desert?
200
The main material in the Mantle.
What is (molten) rock?
200
The name of the super continent.
What is Pangea?
200
The name for plates that rub against each other (causing some catastrophic earthquakes).
What is transform?
300
The ratio of distance on a map to the actual distance.
E.g.
Map 1: 1cm = 10km
Map 2: 1cm = 10,000km
What is scale?
300
Very humid, hot and wet forest near the equator.
What is a rainforest?
300
The core that is solid.
What is inner?
300
The cause of Alfred's dealth
What is froze to death in Arctic?
300
The name for plates that move away from one another (typically in oceans and form the newest rock)
What is divergent?
400
Symbols and colours on a map that represent something.
What is key or legend?
400
These forests are near the northern latitudes and have mostly needle trees (e.g. hemlock). This biome also has long winters and short, yet hot, summers.
What is taiga (boreal)?
400
The type of metal in the innercore that gives the Earth its magnetic poles.
What is iron?
400
Earth's "puzzle" like pieces; similar fossils found on different continents; similar rocks in Europe and N. America; and coal in Antactica are all examples of this.
i.e. conclusions based on _____________.
What is evidence?
400
A strip of land that extends out into a body of water.
What is a peninsula?
500
The location of the first known map in 16,500 B.C.
Where is Lascaux Caves (France)?
500
The very highest mountain ranges (+5000m) in the world have this biome no matter where they are on earth.
What is tundra?
500
The convection currents which allow Earth's crust to move in plates are located here.
What is the mantle?
500
The (approximate) number of years ago Pangea existed.
What is 250 million years?
(accept any answer between 300-100 million years ago)
500
A narrow strip of land that connects two large areas of land.