A recognizable, naturally formed feature on the Earth’s surface.
What is a landform?
100
A map that uses color to show areas of different heights.
What is a relief map?
100
The part of Earth that contains water.
What is the hydrosphere?
100
The solid rocky surface of the Earth.
What is the crust?
100
Myths involving these creatures have been used to explain Earthquakes to California Native Americans.
What are turtles?
200
A flat surface that is raised above the surrounding land.
What is a plateau?
200
The horizontal lines above or below the equator.
What are lines of latitude?
200
These are the two basic forms that water can exist as.
What are salt and fresh?
200
The central part of the Earth, composed of an inner and an outer portion.
What is the core?
200
The first device created to detect Earthquakes looked like this. (describe it)
What is a jar with dragon heads that drop metal balls into a toad's mouth when an earthquake is detected?
300
Large flat areas of land.
What is a plain?
300
This is found at 0 degrees Longitude
What is the Prime Meridian
300
An Ocean is an example of water in this state of matter.
What is a liquid?
300
The layer beneath the crust. It has an upper and lower portion, the upper being rigid and stiff, while the lower flows like plastic putty.
What is the mantle?
300
Today we know earthquakes are caused by the motion of these.
What are Earth's tectonic plates?
400
Some landforms can be described interns of their height above or below sea level, also known as this.
What is Elevation?
400
The vertical lines on a globe that shows location east or west of the prime meridian.
What are lines of longitude?
400
This is an example of water as a gas, seen in the hydrosphere.
What is fog, clouds, or water vapor?
400
The crust and the rigid part of the mantle make up this.
What is the lithosphere?
400
This is a scientist who studies earthquakes.
What is a seismologist?
500
This is a ridge running from Mexico to Canada. West of this ridge, rivers flow toward the Pacific Ocean. East of this ridge, rivers flow toward the Atlantic Ocean or the Gulf of Mexico.
What is The Continental Divide?
500
A map that uses contour lines to show elevation.
What is a topographic map?
500
Large sheets of moving ice composed of fresh water.
What are glaciers?
500
The inner layer of the Earth that is under so much pressure from Earth's extreme density, it is solid.
What is the inner core?
500
These are installed at monitoring stations all over the world and are used to detect earthquakes.