Show:
Physical Geography
Energy Systems
Plate Tectonics / Earthquakes
Earth's Internal Structure / Volcanoes
Glaciers / Rivers
100
This feature of a map shows the features, labels, and symbols, and may include the scale.
What is a legend.
100
This parameter for life on earth supports all life on earth, and likely all life anywhere.
What is water
100
When tectonic plates move away from each other.
What are divergent boundaries.
100
The avalanche of ash, lava, and volcanic gasses that rush down the side of an erupting volcano.
What is a pyroclastic flow.
100
The type of glacier that is found in high mountain valleys, above the snow line.
What are alpine glaciers.
200
These types of maps show man made divisions between continents or countries.
What is a political map.
200
This situation allows energy and mass to pass through the system boundary.
What is an open system.
200
The force that physically moves the tectonic plates.
What are convection currents.
200
The largest volcano. They are dome shaped with gently sloping sides.
What is a shield volcano.
200
The grinding and scouring of exposed rock surfaces by other rocks embedded in a glacier, in a sandpaper fashion.
What is abrasion.
300
This location is not exact, but more vague or general. Described by landmarks, time, direction, or distance.
What is Relative Location
300
The change in state from liquid to gas.
What is evaporation.
300
When the most dense of two colliding tectonic plates is forced under the less dense.
What is subduction.
300
The most dense, hottest part of the earth, believed to be made of solid iron.
What is the inner core.
300
A watery plain formed of glacial sediments deposited by meltwater at the terminus of a glacier
What is an outwash plain.
400
These lines on maps are often known as "parallels".
What are lines of latitude.
400
The name for the percentage of solar radiation (light) that is reflected by a surface.
What is albedo.
400
When two plates slide past each other, often causing catastrophic earthquakes.
What is a transform boundary.
400
This type of volcano has not erupted recently, but may erupt at some point in the future.
What is a dormant volcano.
400
An egg shaped hill formed under a retreating glacier.
What is a drumlin.
500
These lines curve over the earth from pole to pole measuring distance from east to west.
What are lines of longitude.
500
The force that pulled bodies of matter together into planets, stars, and entire galaxies.
What is gravity.
500
The name given to the earth's crust that is not under water.
What is sial.
500
The state of balance between the earth's crust and the denser rock material beneath.
What is isostacy.
500
When debris such as sand and small rocks grind against the river banks and river bed.
What is abrasion.