Planet Earth
Earth spinning on its tilted axis is known as this.
What is (Earth's) rotation?
If it is 4 AM on one side of the globe, this is the theoretical time on the exact opposite side of the globe.
What is 4 PM?
True or False: Except in extremely flat areas, there's always the potential to display more contour lines on a regional map by lowering the contour interval.
What is True?
This is the general type of tectonic plate boundary at which most earthquakes occur.
What is a transform boundary?
These two present-day continents, both of which partly reside in the Southern Hemisphere, look like they could easily fit together like puzzle pieces. They both lend support to the previous existence of supercontinents.
What are South America and Africa?
These lines are drawn horizontally but are a measurement of distance north or south of the Equator.
What are latitude lines?
OR what are lines of latitude?
OR what are latitudinal lines?
Wyoming and Colorado contain many of the Rockies. This is the time zone that both states are completely in.
What is the Mountain Time Zone?
OR What is Mountain Time?
This is the difference between the highest and the lowest points of a given area.
What is relief?
Subduction occurs that this general type of tectonic plate boundary.
What is a convergent boundary?
____________ cells are responsible for the constant movement of tectonic plates.
What is "Convection?"
This noun indicating Earth orbiting around the Sun is also a phrase indicating an uprising.
What is revolution?
This is the number of time zones that comprises the 50 US States (and Washington, D.C.).
What is six?
These are the three general types of landforms. (You must list all three of them to get credit.)
What are plain, mountain, and plateau?
(In any order)
Magnetic poles switching is an observation that helps us date crust coming from this general type of tectonic plate boundary.
What is a divergent boundary?
The Indian-Australian Plate is moving toward three plates. Name one of them.
What is the Pacific Plate?
OR What is the Eurasian Plate?
OR What is Fiji Plate (at least partly)?
This longitudinal line is on the exact opposite side of the world as the Prime Meridian.
What is the International Date Line?
OR what is the IDL?
OR what is 180 degrees (longitude, West and/or East)?
If it is 3 PM in Orlando, Florida, this is the time in Los Angeles, California.
What is 12 PM?
OR what is noon?
[Do not accept credit for 12 AM]
V-shaped contour lines indicate this geological feature commonly associated with rivers.
What is valley?
OR what are valleys?
The Tonga Trench is this general type of plate boundary.
What is a convergent boundary?
The St. Helena Hot Spot is on this tectonic plate.
What is the African plate?
This is the primary reason for the "bulge" around the Equator and why the Earth is an oblate spheroid.
What is Earth's rotation?
[No credit for Earth's revolution or orbit around the Sun.]
This is the current time in Liverpool, England (at 0° longitude), when it is 5 PM in Liverpool, New York.
What is 10 PM?
Plotting the side view of a landscape by obtaining information from a topographical (contour) map is called this.
What is a profile?
The Southwest Indian Ridge is this general kind of plate boundary.
What is a divergent boundary?
Based on the plate tectonics theory, it's inferred that over the past 250 million years, North America has moved in this general compass direction.
What is Northwest?