What scale measures the size of earthquakes?
Richter Scale
How many types of volcanoes are there?
Two
What is a landform?
A physical feature of the Earth
What is a landscape?
An area made up of landforms
What does the B in BOLTSS stand for?
Border
What technology is used to measure earthquakes?
Seismograph
How high can explosive volcanoes shoot material into the air?
up to 25km
What is the name of Australia's largest monolith?
Uluru
What landscape is characterised where land meets the sea?
Coastal
What feature of a map helps the reader understand the direction of the map?
Orientation
Where do most earthquakes occur?
On fault lines or plate boundaries
What is the name of a volcano that slowly oozes molten lava
Non-explosive
What kind of landform is associated with convergent boundaries?
Volcanoes
What landscape is characterised as extremely dry?
Desert
What is another word for a maps legend?
Key
Name the country we talked about that experiences highly destructive earthquakes
New Zealand
What is the name of the volcano that buried the city of Pompeii in 79AD
Mount Vesuvius
What processes create big mountain ranges such as the Great Dividing Range in Australia?
Folding and Faulting
What landscape is made up of caves and limestone rocks?
Karst
What feature of a map helps the reader understand what the map is about?
Title
What is the name of an earthquake that occurs more than 700km deep in the Earth's core?
What is the name for a 'flow' or 'wave' of fast moving ash and gas down mountainsides?
Pyroclastic flow
Name 3 processes that contribute to changing landforms.
Weathering, Erosion and Deposition
What kind of landscape would you describe Brisbane city as?
Built
What do both S's stand for in BOLTSS?
Scale and Source