Chapters 11-15 Test Review Flashcards
What causes ocean currents?
Surface water is cooled in polar regions. Cold water sinks (more dense than warm water), and warm water from the equator flows out to take its place.
“river in the sea”
Gulf Stream
the primary factor in giving ocean currents their life
temperature differences
first textbook about the ocean
Geography of the Sea
traced out ocean currents
Matthew Maury
rim of the Pacific basin that has lots of earthquakes and active volcanos
ring of fire
lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere
solid, liquid, gas
Explain what caused deep grooves in solid rock in valley walls, and caused boulders to do the southern plains far from the mountains of their origin.
Glaciers move, pressing boulders against valley walls, carving deep grooves. Glaciers carried the boulders to the southern plain, leaving them as they melted
developed the Theory of Evolution and believed the surface features of the earth were caused by natural forces, not Noah’s flood
Charles Darwin
a large body of ice on land
glacier
caused the formation of the Great Lakes and an ice sheet all the way to the Mediterranean Sea
Ice Age
a Swiss naturalist that studied glaciers and fossils
Louis Agassiz
Largest river flow by volume in U.S.
Mississippi
Longest river in the U.S.
Missouri
River that carries the largest volume of water in the world.
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