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What causes a hurricane to slow down?
Friction from water & Low Pressure System
Friction from water & High Pressure System
Friction from land & Low Pressure System
Friction from land & High Pressure System
2
What type of front is represented by triangles?
Warm front
Occluded fromt
Cold front
Stationary front
3
What type of weather do Low Pressure Systems bring?
Humid, cloudy, and possibly rainy weather
Clear, Sunny, and Dry Weather
4
What two landforms always form at Subduction Zones?
Volcanoes & Rifts
Trenches and Mountains
Volcanoes & Trenches
Mid-ocean Ridges & Rifts
5
What land form is created when two ocean plates diverge?
Trench
Mid-ocean Ridge
Mountain
Rift Valley
6
How do rivers flow on a topographic map?
Out of the "V" shaped contour lines
Into the "V" shaped contour lines
7
What is the front called when warm and cold air collide but do not move?
Cold Front
Stationary Front
Warm Front
Occluded Front
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What is the theory that all plates are moving on the Earth’s mantle called?
Theory of Continental Drift
Theory of Relativity
Big Bang Theory
Theory of Plate Tectonics
9
What type of weather do cold fronts bring?
Warmer temperatures, Low pressure systems, humidity & clouds
Cooler temperature, High pressure systems, Clear & Dry
10
What is erosion?
Movement of soil
Breaking down of rock
Depositing of soil
11
How do crustal plates move?
The rising of hot & sinking of cold fluids in a circle
When a more dense plate slides under a less dense plate
Convection Currents in Earth’s mantle
12
What are currents found at the top of the ocean and are caused by wind?
Deep Sea Currents
Surface Currents
13
Hurricanes form over oceans with what temperature of water?
Cold
Warm
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What is a Convection Current?
Convection Currents in Earth’s mantle
The rising of hot & sinking of cold fluids in a circle
Topographic Map
When a more dense plate slides under a less dense plate
15
How do Transform boundaries move?
Slide
Collide
Divide
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How do Divergent boundaries move?
Divide
Slide
Collide
17
What is subduction?
Dividing plates
When a more dense plate slides under a less dense plate
When a less dense plate slides under a more dense plate
18
What type of slope would a landform have if the contour lines are close together?
Steep slope
Gradual slope
19
What are the curved lines on a topographic map called?
Contour lines
Fault lines
Tan lines
20
What type of front is represented by half circles?
Cold front
Warm front
Stationary front
Occluded front
21
How do Convergent boundaries move?
Divide
Slide
Collide
22
What landform is created at a Convergent boundary between Continental Plates?
Fault Lines
Trenches
Mountains
Rifts
23
What is an image of Earth taken from an object in space?
Black and white image
Selfie
X-ray Image
Satellite Image
24
What is the theory that the Continents used to be connected as a super-continent called?
Theory of Continental Drift
Big Bang Theory
Theory of Plate Tectonics
Theory of Relativity
25
What landform is created when to continental plates diverge?
Volcano
Rift Valley
Fault Line
Trench
26
What are currents caused by differences in ocean water density?
Surface Currents
Deep Sea Currents
27
What type of weather do warm fronts bring?
Cooler temperatures, High pressure systems, Clear & Dry
Warmer temperatures, Low pressure systems, Humidity & clouds
28
What is the current condition of the atmosphere called?
Climate
Weather
29
What type of slope would a landform have if the contour lines are far apart?
Gradual slope
Steep slope
30
What do you call a map with curved contour lines that tells you elevation?
Satellite Map
Road Map
Topographic Map
Contour Map
31
What type of weather do High Pressure Systems bring?
Humid, cloudy, and possibly rainy weather
Clear, Sunny, and Dry Weather
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What is weathering?
Movement of soil
Depositing of soil
Breaking down of rock into soil
