Maps and Globes
This type of map shows the surface features of an area. They use symbols to portray the land as if you were looking down on it from above.
Topographic map
A landform with high elevation and high relief.
Mountain
I am the dark-colored organic material found in soil. I help make the soil more fertile.
Humus
What are the 2 types of weathering?
Chemical and Physical
Fossils are the preserved remains or traces of what?
Living things
What does GPS stand for in mapping?
Global Position Systems
What are the 2 types of glaciers.
Continental glaciers and valley glaciers.
A continental glacier is a glacier that covers much of a continent or large island.
A valley glacier is a long, narrow glacier that forms when snow and ice build up high in a mountain valley.
The force that moves rock and other material downhill.
Gravity
Acid Rain is a form of what type of weathering?
Chemical weathering
Most fossils form when living things die and are buried by_________________.
Sediment
What is the line called on a map that connects points of equal elevation.
A contour line.
What is this describing........A wide valley through which a river flows. A river often covers it when it overflows its banks during floods. The river spreads out and erodes the land, forming a wide river valley.
A floodplain
The process in which sediment is laid down in new locations.
Deposition
What is abrasion?
The grinding away of rock by other rock pieces that are in water, ice or wind.
Fossils are typically found in what type of rock?
Sedimentary
The horizontal lines that measure distance north or south of the equator.
Latitude
Many rills flow into one another, grow larger and form_________________.
Gullies
What is soil conservation?
The management of soil to prevent it's destruction.
What is a chemical change called when a substance combines with oxygen?
Oxidation
This is an igneous rock layer formed when lava flows onto Earth’s surface and hardens.
Extrusion
This is the imaginary line that divides the Earth into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
Prime Meridian
What is the part of the shore that sticks out into the ocean called?
Headland
The power of a river to cause erosion and carry sediment depends on 3 things. Name these 3 things.
Slope, volume of flow, and streambed shape.
Explain the difference between weathering and erosion.
Weathering is the processes which break down rock, and erosion is the process by which water, ice, wind or gravity MOVES weathered rock and soil.
Within the layers of sedimentary rock, the youngest layer is at the top. As you go further down, each layer below is older. What is this called?
The of Law of Superposition