Continental Shifts
Spheres
Which Theme
Erosion
100
The name of the idea that in the beginning all of the continents were once a single huge land mass before we had 7 Continents.
What is the Continental Drift Theory?
100
It consists of the water in the oceans, lakes, and rivers, and even under the ground.
What is hydrosphere?
100
This theme is described two different ways - by absolute or relative.
What is Location?
100
Which kind of weathering occurs when rock is actually broken down physically.
What is mechanical weathering?
200
The name of the single large land mass before it split into the 7 different continents.
What is the Pangea?
200
The layer of air, water, and other substances above the surface.
What is atmosphere?
200
This theme is often described how features (both physical and human) make them different from one another.
What is Region?
200
The kind of weathering that can change one kind of rock into a completely different kind.
What is chemical weathering?
300
The innermost layer of the earth or the center of the earth.
What is the crust?
300
The world of plants, and other living things that occupy the land and water of the planet.
What is biosphere?
300
A group of places that have at least one common characteristic.
What is a Region?
300
The most common type of chemical weathering.
What is acid rain?
400
The name of the large pieces of rock on the lithosphere that cause volcanoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis when they shift and move.
What is Plate Tectonics?
400
The soil, rocks, landforms, and other surface features.
What is lithosphere?
400
This theme follows people, goods, and ideas will move between them.
What is movement?
400
The type of erosion that created the Grand Canyon.
What is Water Erosion?
500
The name given to the most active earthquake and volcano area in the world.
What is the ring of fire?
500
Geographers often talk of the different elements of the earth's natural environment as a set of related _______.
What is spheres?
500
This theme involves how people use their environment.
What is Human-Environment Interaction?
500
Small particles of soil, sand, and gravel that can be carried by moving water in rivers, creeks, and streams.
What is sediment?
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