Virginia Land Use
This is when land is used for fun - camping, fishing, hiking, parks, etc
Recreation
These are formed through weathering and erosion
Sediments
The outside layer of the earth
crust
When 2 plates slide past eachother, causing an earthquake
transform boundary
type of water resource that flows into a bigger body of water
river
When the land is used for farming
Agriculture
Metamorphic rocks form through-
heat and pressure
The innermost layer of the earth,made of SOLID iron and nickel
inner core
the earth is broke up into peices of rock called -
plates
type of water resource that is surrounded by land
When the land is used for homes and businesses
Industry
melting a rock turns it into -
magma
when plates move away from eachother, causing volcanoes and new crust
divergent boundary
where all the water flows downhill into a bigger body of water
watershed
Land is used for roads, railroads, and airports
Transportation
cementing and compacting of sediments forms -
sedimentary rocks
layer of the earth right below the crust
mantle
when plates move towards each other, forming volcanoes or mountains
convergent boundary
partially enclosed body of water; part of the ocean
Over half of Virginia's land is made up of this
forest
when magma cools, it forms -
igneous rocks
What are the 2 types of crust?
Oceanic and continental
where 2 plates meet, sometimes called a plate boundary
fault
What does "we all live downstream" mean?
Everyone lives in a watershed. Everything we do affects another body of water.