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Large flat areas of land
What are plains?
100
Flat raised areas of land.
What is plataeu?
100
Areas that rise high above the surrounding land.
What are mountain ranges?
100
The crust and upper mantle.
What is lithosphere?
100
Height above or below sea level
What is elevation?
200
The central part of the Earth that consists of an inner and outer portion.
What is the core?
200
A measurement of location east and west of the the prime meridian?
What is longitude?
200
Part of the earth that contains water.
What is hydrosphere?
200
A measurement of location north or south of the equator.
What is latitude?
200
Earth's solid rocky surface.
What is the crust?
300
The layer beneath the Earth's crust?
What is the mantle?
300
A map with contour lines that connects places with the same elevation.
What are topographic maps?
300
A scientific model that explains that the surface of the Earth is made up of plates that move.
What is plate tectonics?
300
The process by which new rock forces plates on the ocean floor to move farther and farther apart.
What is seafloor spreading?
300
Wegener's concept that continents moved apart to their present positions.
What is continental drift?
400
A place where plates collide.
What is convergent boundary?
400
A place where plates move apart.
What is divergent boundary?
400
A place where plates slide past eachother.
What is transform boundary?
400
A process in which an oceanic plate slides under a continental plate.
What is subduction?
400
A map used to show Earth's landforms at different heights.
What is a relief map?
500
A single supercontinent that all the continents were once a part of?
What is Pangaea?
500
A type of boundary where earthquakes can occur.
What is transform boundary?
500
The Grand Canyon is an example of this type of landform.
What is a plataeu?
500
Lines on the map that run north to south.
What are longitude lines?
500
Mountains form at these type of boundaries.
What is convergent boundary?