Landforms Ocean Features Earthquakes Volcanoes How Scientists Use Maps
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mountain
What is the landform that rises high above the ground?
100
mid-ocean ridge
What is the long mountain ranges that stretch through the middle of some oceans?
100
earthquake
What is a sudden shaking of the rock that makes up the earth's crust?
100
a mountain that builds up around an opening in Earth's crust.
What is a volcano?
100
to analyze and organize information
Why do scientists use maps?
200
canyon
What is the landform that's a deep valley with high, steep sides?
200
continental shelf
What is the part of the ocean floor that is covered by shallow water and gradually slopes down?
200
plate tectonics
What is a scientific theory that Earth's crust is made of moving plates?
200
true
True or False: most volcanoes occur where earthquakes have happened.
200
relief map
What is the type of map that shows different elevations?
300
plateau
What is flat land that is higher than the land around it.
300
continental slope
What is the sharp slope where the continental shelf ends and underwater canyons can form?
300
fault
What is a break or crack in the rocks of Earth's crust where movement can take place?
300
plate boundaries
Where do most volcanoes occur?
300
where landforms, soil, rock, animals, and water is found.
What types of information might be featured on a map?
400
valley
What is the landform that is the low land between hills and mountains?
400
continental rise
What is the feature that connects the continent with the ocean floor?
400
Earth was one super continent that broke apart
What happened 250 million years ago to the Earth?
400
Mountains have a peak at the top where a volcano has an opening.
What is the difference between a mountain and a volcano?
400
Western/south west side
On what part of the US map would you find mountains?
500
cliff
What is the landform that is a high, steep section of rock?
500
abyssal plains
What is the wide, flat area of the ocean floor without features?
500
North America
What is the tectonic plate we live on?
500
When 2 plates collide, one slides under the other, the sinking plate melts. Some of that melted rock can rise up through cracks to form a volcano.
How do colliding plates form a volcano?
500
topographic map
What is the type of map that shows the elevation of an area of Earth's surface using contour lines?






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