Topographic Maps
A ________ gives an accurate representation of a certain landscape on the ground. Theses maps show many things such as railways, roads, and elevations. They are 2-dimensional that show 3-dimensional terrains.
What is Plains?
A measure of the strength of earthquakes and volcanoes. The scale measure the magnitude of earthquakes with each magnitude being 10x stronger than the previous number.
What is a Richter Scale?
The point on Earth's surface directly above the location of an earthquake.
What is an Epicentre?
The kayapo people lived in the _______, near the Xingu river.
What is Amazon Rainforest?
This colour is used to represent vegetations such as forests, farms, etc.
What is Green?
An area of relatively level high ground.
What is a Plateau?
An instrument that detects and record vibrations of the earth's crust from earthquakes, volcanoes, or other ground shaking events.
What is a Seismograph?
The outer solid layer of Earth made up of moving plates.
What is a Lithosphere?
The case study in which a tribe successfully protected their rights over their land in a rainforest from the government building a dam.
What is a Kayapo Case Study?
An imaginary line of earth connecting points of equal elevation above an accepted base level. These lines are used to show elevations and depressions
What is a Contour lines?
A sudden and violent shaking of the ground, sometimes causing destruction, as a result of movements with the Earth's crust on Volcanic action.
What is an Earthquake?
The place where two plates slide against each other creating friction. These boundaries often cause earthquakes.
What is a Transform Plate Boundary?
Soft weak layer under the lithosphere upon which the tectonic plates move.
What is an Asthenosphere?
What is UNICEF?
This colour is used to represent cultural features like buildings, railways, and transmission lines. It's also used to show Toponymy like names, symbols, coordinates, etc.
What is Black?
Hot fluid or semifluid material below or within the earth's crust.
The places where plates push together. This causes the plates to push up and push down. This creates fold mountains, and earthquakes. Magma also bursts out from the pressure, creating volcanoes.
What is a Convergent Plate Boundary?
The breaking down of rocks by physical or chemical processes.
What is a Weathering?
The case study in which a line of volcanoes erupted followed by a massive eruption caused airlines to shut down.
What is the Eyjafjallajokull Case Study?
This information feature includes mountains, valleys, hills, and depressions, usually shown with contour lines.
What is a relief?
THe base rock of an ancient mountain region that has been worn away, leaving a flat, rocky landform region.
What is a Shield?
A circular motion created when warmer material rises and draws down cooler material, which replaces it.
What is Convection Flow?
In 2010, massive eruption caused ash to rise more than 11 000 m in the air. The ash cloud spread all the way to ______.
What is Eurasia?