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9 Cards in this Set
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How many continents are there? and name them.
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Africa
Asia Europe Australia North America South America Antarctic |
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How many oceans are on the Earth? Name the Oceans.
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Pacific Ocean
Indian Ocean Atlantic Ocean Arctic Ocean |
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What does the term pangea mean?
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super
continent |
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What is the continental drift?
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Large Pangea broke into several smaller contintents and the continents
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How are landforms are made? What is plate techtonics?
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Earth's surfaces are made of plates. These plates techtonics crash and continents and oceans are formed.
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What causes earthquakes
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Earthquakes are made by SUDDEN plate's crashing together.
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How are volcanos formed and what is lava?
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Volcanos are made by two plates push together. The upper plate is pushed up. The lower plate is pushed down into the mantle. In the Earth's mantle the lower plate is melted and creates magma.
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What are the ways Earth's surface is shaped? What are the agents of weathering?
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The agents of weathering are wind and water. Water and wind can cause the breakdown of land through erosion or deposition.
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How do people change the land?
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People can change the land by farming and building cities. People have created dams. Poeple have drain wetlands to create dry land to build cities.
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