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Geography/
Geology
Earth's Movements
Maps
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
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A model of the Earth in a sphere shape.
What is a globe?
100
Causes day and night.
What is the rotation of the earth?
100
The kind of map we use to find a specific address.
What is a street map?
100
Generally, there are three types of volcanoes called
What are shield, cinder cones, and composite cones?
100
In most cases the safest place to be during an earthquake is
What is outdoors, away from any falling objects?
200
"geo" means_____ and "graphy" means______
What is land and to write or chart something?
200
The two causes of the seasons.
What is the tilt of the Earth and it's revolution around the sun?
200
A 3-dimensional map showing elevation is called
What is a relief map?
200
The Hawaiian Islands were formed by the Pacific Plate moving north-westward over a
What is a Hot Spot?
200
We have learned that the plates on the surface of the earth move. The force that moves these plates is from
What is the interior of the earth, where there is much heat energy.
300
The study of the land and its features.
What is Geology
300
The movement of the plates of the Earth's surface.
What is Plate Tectonics?
300
A 2-dimensional map that shows elevation
What is a topographic map
300
Most often, when an ocean and continental plate collide at a convergent area volcanoes form. This is called
What is a Subduction zone?
300
The layers of the earth
What is inner core, outer core, mantle, asthenosphere, crust?
400
The study of the land, and seas, and where countries, cities or towns are found.
What is Geography?
400
The slipping or movement of one plate against another causes most
What is/are earthquakes?
400
Map making today is very different than it was a hundred years ago. Two of the "new tools" for mapping are
What is SONAR, radar, Microwave sensing, infrared sensing.
400
The most famous transform fault in the United States is in California and is called
What is the San Andreas Fault?
400
A wave that forms when an earthquake happens in ocean crust.
What is a tsunami?
500
The person who makes maps.
What is a cartographer?
500
The crust of the earth is always moving. It is thought that the land started out as one continent called
What is Pangea?
500
GPS is based on using satellites to provide location. The acronym GPS stands for
What is global positioning system?
500
Where the continents and ocean plates meet around the Pacific ocean, there are many volcanic and earthquakes zones. This large area is called
What is the Ring of Fire?
500
The three types of faults on which earthquakes can form
What is transform, divergent, convergent