plate techtonics/about earth
what does pangea mean?
All land
what is a common natural disaster is common in British columbia?
Earthquakes
what are the 4 major layers of the earth
The crust, mantle, outer core, inner core
what is the capital of Canada?
Ottawa
A picture on a map that shows directions such as east, west, south, and north.
what is a compass rose?
what continents have the rockie mountains?
North america
What nautral disasters can happpen when techonic plate hit each other?
earthquakes and tsunami's
An invisible line that goes around the center of the at 0 degrees latitude
What is the equator
where does time start around the whole world?
Greenwich,England
what map shows the population to each country?
Isodemographic map
What causes convention currents to change?
The change in temperature
a volcanoe that was dormant for centuries and was in pompeii?
What is mount vesuvius?
what is lava called when it is under the earths surface?
magma
How many provinces are their in Canada?
10 provinces
what does GPS stand for?
What is a global positioning system?
how did earth get it water?
A meteorites with ice crystals inside it hit earth.
How many volcanoes are in the pacific ring of fire?
452
The thinnest layer of the earth is?
The crust
what province in Canada has its own time zone?
Newfoundland
what is wrong with all maps?
distortions can occur through alterations to scale
In Iceland, you can walk across two tectonic plates, side by side. Which ones, exactly?
Eurasian and North America
a steep sided mountain formed form layers of lava and magma
What is a composite volcano?
what does the the atmosphere protect us from?
extreme heats from the sun and ultraviolet radiation
what city in italy is below sea level?
Venice
What is a map scale?
the size of the representation on the map as compared to the size of the object on the ground.