geography cka revision Flashcards
Tectonic plates/boundaries, continents, oceans, earthquakes and volcanoes
1
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what are the seven continents?
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North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia.
2
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what are the five oceans?
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Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and the Arctic Ocean
3
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what are the names of the main tectonic plates?
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African, Antarctic, Eurasian, Indo-Australian, North American, Pacific and South American.
4
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what are the parts of a composite volcano?
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the crater, the vent, the magma chamber and lava
5
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what are the names of types of plate boundaries?
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destructive, constructive, conservative and convergent
6
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how are earthquakes measured?
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using the Richter scale
7
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what are the two main types of volcanoes?
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composite and shield volcano
8
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what are the three groups of volcanoes
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active, dormant and extinct
