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- what do volcanos do when lava comes out
- some ooze and some erupt violently
- how do volcanoes form
- it forms when the magma has no room and then the lava come through some cracks and form a volacano slowly
- why do volcanoes erupt
- they erupt because there are some gasses that are in the volcano which makes it explode
- is there one kind of volcano or is it more than one
- its more than one
- how many types of volcanoes
- three
- how fast do the plates move in a year
- about 2 in all of the plates move around that fast
- what happens to rocks under the crust when it gets too hot
- it rises
- what happens to rocks when it get too cool under the crust
- it sinks
- what are three peices of evidencs that pangaea existed
- fossils coal in antartica rocks that are the same on different continents
- The five themes
- place location movement human envirement interation region
- Geography
- Geography the study of where people places and things are located, and the ways in which things relate to each other
- The three things of movement are
- goods people ideas
- what are the two regions
- functional region and formal region
- what does geo mean
- earth
- what does grafia mean
- writing
- what are the two types of location
- absolute and relative
- what are the two characteristics of place
- human phisical
- how is the grid labled
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west and east latitude
north and south longitude - what are the five map components
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compass rose
legend key
scale
title-tells
latitude/longtitude - what is the compass rose
- shows cardinal directions north south east west
- what is legend key
- explains what symblos are used on the map example rivers
- what is scale
- shows the users sizes on the map
- title tells
- what th map is showing
- latitude and longtitude is
- imagin any bird to find its location
- what is region
- a group of places that share some common characteristics like phicical human or both
- what are the three layers of the earth
- inner core mantle crust
- what does internal forces do
- it shapes the earths crust into creating mountains plains and other landforms
- name four major plates
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south american plate indo austrailien plate african plate north american plate
ex all the continents - how does absolute and relative locations differ
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relative postition in relation to other places and uses other places changes beased on your intention
Ablsolute postition on globe uses latitude and longtitude does not change - what does external forces do
- human env weather erosion
- what are plate tectonics
- the earths crust is broken up into masses of plates wihich the coordinents are apart of
- what is continental drift
- The movements of continents they have been slowy moving away from each and towards each other
- name four major plate movements
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converging indiut asia
subduction
Faulting/ translation
spreding - what is coverging do and create
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two plates meet and colide
creates mountains - subduction what does it do and create
- two land masses meet and fold over each other creating volcanoes and mountains
- spreading two plates move away from each other creating magmato spread
- new ocean floor
- faulting creates and does what
- two plates rubbing together creating earth quakes
- what does the earths crust rest on
- it rests on the mantle
- what causes earth quakes
- shifting plates
- why do people choose to live near volcanoes
- the rapid growth of reproduction ubanization and enomic development
- what is pangaea
- a super continent
- what is the second step that a geagrapher does
- analyzes info
- what is the final step that a geographer does
- display info
- how can latitude and longtitude help track hurricanes
- it tracks hurricanes by pinpointing its location and by two pinpoints of it location they can find which direction its going
- what is formal region
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areas where a certain characteristics are found thrpugh out the area.
ex cornbelt usa cinatown san frinsisco - what is functoinal region
- on central place and the areas around it are affected
- how are the five themes of geography related
- it is related by that they are all themes and they are all the study of geography (what geographers usually look for when they are researching a place)
- what makes the eaths core
- it is made of very hot rock or liquid or magma
- why do the plates of the earth move
- it moves because the atlantic ocean is getting bigger and the pacific ocean is becoming smaller
- what does the plate tectonic theory try to explain
- it trys to explain movement of the eaths crust and that the contintents aren't attached to the crust
- what is the super continet called that existed 200 million years ago
- pangaea
- what created the hymalayas
- the movement of the tectonic plates
- what does the lithosphere float on
- they float on the abthenosphere
- what does lithosphere mean
- the crust and upper mantle
- what are the major forms of plate tectonic plates of margin behavior
- subduction translation and spreding
- what is occuring along the san andreas fault and what is the result
- faulting it made the earth quakes and devided the earth to south america
- what does the appearence of lava flows on the ocean floor
- it looks like pillows and its made of rock
- what are the layers of the earth
- core oter core mantle crust
- how do geographers describe a place
- by human and physical characteristics
- what is another way to say latitude is
- parallels
- why do geographers analyze info
- because there looking for patterns causes or consequenses
- how do geographers show there info
- they show it on maps graphs diagrams ect.
- how do geographers collect there information
- remote sensing images
- what are remote sensing images
- hey are computer generated satellites
- what are folds
- when rock layers bend and buckle
- what is relief
- the difference in elavation between the highest and lowest points
- what is the ring of fire
- it is a circle ofvolcanoes surrounding the pacififc ocean
- geographers discuss the movement of
- goods people and ideas
- what is an examle of physical characteristics
- grand canyon
- what is an example of human characteristics
- buildings
- what is lava
- very hot rock that is liquid
- what are two internal processes that create land forms
- volcanoism and changes in the earths crust
- what is archipeligo
- a group of islands very close to each other
- what is cape
- a peice of land projecting into a body of water
- what is channel
- a small body of water leading from the ocean to a river
- what is delta
- its a deposit of sand and soil and its shaped in the form of a triangle
- what is a desert
- a desert is a very sandy and hot area that doesnt rain often
- what is a glacier
- a ver big pile of ice
- what is harbor
- a harbor is an area where you usually park a boat
- what is an island
- a small group of land surrounded by water
- what is a mountain
- a pile of rock that is connected to the earths surface
- what is an oasis
- a desert area taht has water and plant growth