What is Soil formation, karst topography, permeability, groundwater, water cycle, and major water sheds
100
What are the boundaries that move away from each other?
What are divergent boundaries?
200
True or False?: Maps are a flat representation of a curved surface.
True.
200
The Earth is divided into __ chemical layers.
3
200
What are the four renewable resources?
What is solar, hydroelectric,wind,and chemical
200
What percentage of the water on earth is available as a freshwater source?
What is 0.3%
200
What are the three types of plate boundaries?
What are convergent, divergent, and transform boundaries.
300
What are three ways that scale is represented? (3 answers)
Representative Fraction
Graphic/Bar
Verbal
300
What is the difference between oceanic crust and continental crust?
Oceanic: thin, young, and more dense.
Continental: thick, old, and less dense.
300
How is energy released in Nuclear power?
What is Fission reaction
300
What are the three major water shed in Virginia?
What is Chesapeake Bay watershed, North Carolina Sound, Gulf of Mexico
300
What are the three types of rocks and how are they formed?
What is metamorphic, igneous, and sedimentary. Metamorphic is created by heat and pressure, igneous is created by crystalization, and sedimentary is created by cementation.
400
Maps will always create distortions in at least what? (4 answers)
Area; size; distance; shape
400
True or False?: The crust makes up 1% of the Earth's mass and is 50-100 km thick.
False.
400
What creates reservoirs for petroleum?
What is impermeable rock layers
400
Karst topography is developed in areas underlain by carbonate rocks like...
What is Limestone and dolomite
400
Some landforms found at convergent boundaries are...
What are mid-ocean ridges, rift valleys, and seafloor spreadng
500
Arbitrary starting at 0°, is called what?
The Prime Meridian
500
What are the pieces the lithosphere is divided into?
Tectonic plates
500
What are the different types of coal?
What is Peat, Lignite, Bituminous, and Anthracite
500
What is the order of the ground water features?
What is Zone of Aeration, Water Table, and Zone of Saturation
500
What is petroleum?
What is a mixture of liquid hydro-compounds. Like gasoline, jet fuel, kerosene, etc.