Vocabulary
Topographic Maps
Plate Tectonics
The Water Cycle
Weathering & Erosion
100
All of the continents were once joined forming a supercontinent called Pangaea. The continents split and separated due to the forces of ______________
What is Plate Tectonics?
100
What information does a topographic map provide?
What i the shape and elevation of the land?
100
Earthquakes occur at ______________ plate boundaries.
What are transform boundaries?
100
The energy that drives the water cycle comes from the ______________.
What is the sun?
100
What are the three main agents involved in mechanical weathering?
What are wind, water, and ice?
200
________________ are tiny rock particles created by weathering.
What are sediments?
200
Identify the contour interval.
What is 10 meters?
200
Which type of plate boundary is responsible for the formation of volcanoes, mountains, deep sea trenches and subduction zones?
What are convergent boundaries?
200
___________ % of the earth is fresh water.
What is 3%?
200
What three agents are involved in chemical weathering?
What are Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide, and Water?
300
The breaking down of rock is known as __________.
What is weathering?
300
What is the change in elevation from point F to point B?
What is 30 meters?
300
What natural phenomena form at divergent plate boundaries?
What is the mid-ocean ridge and rift valleys?
300
How do clouds form?
What is liquid water vapor loses energy and condenses by changing to liquid water in the atmosphere?
300
This rock has been _____________ weathered.
What is chemically?
400
_______________ is the transportation of sediment from one place to another.
What is erosion?
400
If you walked from point G to point A, what direction would you be walking?
What is north east?
400
How do subduction zones form?
What is oceanic crust is more dense so it sinks below the less dense continental crust?
400
Infiltration is...
What is water seeping into the ground?
400
These rocks were taken from a riverbed. How can a scientist explain that these rocks form in water?
What is the rocks have a circular shape, and this suggests that the rocks were rolling around and crashing into each other creating their smooth round shape?
500
The break down of rocks and minerals into smaller pieces without changing its composition is called ________________________________.
What is mechanical weathering?
500
What is the elevation of points C and D?
What is 1-9 meters?
500
______________ boundaries are responsible for "destroying crust", while ____________ boundaries create "new crust".
What are convergent and divergent?
500
Plants take in water through their roots and release it as water vapor.
What is transpiration?
500
This picture represents the process of __________.
What is deposition of sediment into rock layers?