Study Guide Flashcards
What are Interrelationships?
Interrelationships are the connections between parts in one system, or between two systems.
What is spatial significance?
The importance of a place and those things that are around it.
What is spatial?
Something that exists or occurs in a space.
What are patterns?
The arrangement or similarities in characteristics.
What are trends?
Patterns in how something is changing or developing.
Shape
The general form of an object
Size
How big or small an object is compared to other objects in an image
Texture
The way an object feels (smooth or bumpy)
Pattern
How objects are organized
What is an earthquake?
The release of energy through Earth’s crust due to change taking place beneath it.
What is a shield?
The base rock of an ancient mountain region that has been worn away, leaving a flat, rocky landform region.
What is a plateau?
A high, flat region that has been lifted up by movement of Earth’s surface.
What is a volcano?
An opening in Earth’s surface which hot molten rock or magma escapes to reach the surface.
What is magma?
An extremely hot fluid or semi-fluid material under Earth’s crust.
Divergent Boundary
Are the places where 2 plates of the lithosphere are moving apart.
Transform Boundary
A place where side-by-side plates grind past each other.
Convergent Boundary
A place where 2 plates of the lithosphere come together.
What is a lithosphere?
The outer, solid layer of Earth made up of moving plates.
What is the asthenosphere?
Soft weak layer under the lithosphere upon where the tectonic plates move.
What are ice erosions
Ice erosion: During ice ages, ice sheets or glaciers, slowly moved across Earth’s surface, scraping the top layers of rock away. Glaciers carried along the particles they broke off.
What are water erosions
Water erosion: As water flows across Earth’s surface, it erodes the rock, picking up small pieces of weathered material and carrying them away.
What are wind erosions
Wind erosion: Where the surface is bare, the wind picks up weathered particles and carries them along.
