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Physical Geography
Energy Systems
Plate Tectonics / Earthquakes
Earth's Internal Structure / Volcanoes
Glaciers / Rivers
100
This location is exact, very specific. Given as an exact address or in degrees of latitude and longitude.
What is Absolute Location
100
This parameter for life on earth protects us from solar winds and radiation.
What is the earth's magnetic field.
100
When plates move toward each other.
What are convergent boundaries.
100
Molten rock that reaches the earth's surface.
What is lava.
100
The type of glacier that covers large land masses. These are the largest types of glaciers.
What are continental glaciers.
200
This is a person who creates maps.
What is a cartographer.
200
This "sphere" of the earth contains all the living things on the planet.
What is the biosphere.
200
The name given to the earth's crust under water.
What is sima.
200
The smallest type of volcano that has steep sides formed over a single vent.
What is a cinder cone volcano.
200
Sedimentary material consisting of fine particles. It's consistency is somewhere between sand and clay.
What is silt.
300
Two equal halves of the earth which can be divided into north and south, or east and west, are known as these.
What is a hemisphere.
300
This situation allows energy but not mass to pass through the system boundary.
What is a closed system.
300
The name of the deep depression often caused when an oceanic plate subducts under another.
What is a trench.
300
The molten layer of the earth that generates 90% of the earth's magnetic field.
What is the outer core.
300
The heap of bulldozed gravel, silt, & soil debris that marks the end of the forward motion of a glacier.
What is a terminal moraine.
400
The meridian at which the longitude is defined to be 0 degrees.
What is the prime meridian.
400
The name for condensed water vapour that falls back to earth.
What is precipitation.
400
This highly plastic layer in the upper mantle has tectonic plates "floating" on top of it.
What is the asthenosphere.
400
the type of lave that flows as small lobes and toes that break out from a cooling crust, and dries with a smooth rope-like surface.
What is pahoehoe lava.
400
The transported rocks and boulders due to glacial movement and deposition. The glacier dropped them off when it melted.
What are erratics.
500
This type of map could be used to indicate population density, rainfall, or storm history.
What is a special purpose map.
500
The body that contained all the mass and energy in the universe condensed into an infinitely dense point.
What is a singularity.
500
The name of the transform boundary (fault) that threatens to destroy much of California.
What is the San Andreas Fault
500
The ability of a solid mass (rock) to act like a fluid because of the great pressure acting upon it.
What is plasticity.
500
The removal of dirt and rocks from the bed and banks of the river by the force of the running water (like a water jet, or firehose).
What is hydraulic action.