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Plate Tectonics and Topographic Maps
Plate Tectonics and Topographic Maps
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What map uses elevation contour lines to show the shape of the Earth's surface?
Topographic Maps
Relief Maps
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What is the theory that Earth is divided into several plates that have been slowly gliding over each other?
Elevation
Pangea
Plate Tectonics
3
What are places where unusually hot magma rises through the Earth's surface?
Tsuanmi
Mountains
Hotspot
4
What is a drawing on a map that tells the direction of the places on the map?
Compass Rose
Map Key
Compass
5
What indicates the steepness of terrain on a topographic map?
Plate tectonics
Contour lines
Pangea
6
What is the supercontinent that was together before it broke up and the continents drifted apart?
Eurasia
Plate Tectonics
Pangea
7
A mountain range is the most similar to what in the ocean?
Canyon
Plain
Mid-ocean ridge
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The top layer of the Earth is called the ____.
Mantle
Crust
9
What landform results in lava flow?
Volcanoes
Caves
Mountains
Rivers
10
When an earthquake happens underwater it makes a large wave. What is this wave called?
Tornado
Tsunami
Hurricane
11
What is a string of volcanoes and sites of seismic activity around the edge of the Pacific Ocean?
Earthquakes
Plate Tectonics
Ring of Fire
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What is the deepest part of the ocean basin?
deep-ocean trench
Volcano
Mid-ocean ridge
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What is the distance above or below sea level?
Crust
Elevation
Boundary
14
What describes a canyon with steep sides and deep, narrow valleys on the ocean floor?
Deep-ocean trench
Volcanoes
Mountains
15
The middle layer of Earth that contains the magma is called the _____.
Core
Mantle
16
What forms when plates shift and push past each other, and the land violently shakes and cracks?
Mountains
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
17
What is an opening in Earth's surface out of which lava, hot gasses, and ash erupt?
Earthquake
Mountain
Volcano
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Where are most earthquakes and volcanoes found around the world?
in the middle of the ocean
in the middle of continents and oceans
at the edges of continents and oceans