WORLD GEOGRAPHY - CHAPTER
4
LANDFORMS and NATURAL
RESOURCES
1.
AGENTS OF
EROSION: Wind, Water, Ice, Gravity
2.
EROSION: moves
pieces of rock or dirt
3.
WEATHERING:
breaks rocks into smaller pieces
4.
MINERALS: Zinc,
Aluminum, limestone
5.
Earthquakes and
volcanoes are more common at PLATE BOUNDARIES.
6.
3 TYPES OF PLATE
MOVEMENT: Divergent, Convergent, Strike Slip
7.
DIVERGENT
BOUNDARY: When two plates move away from each other
8.
TRENCH: A deep
valley marking a collision of plates, where one plate slides under another.
9.
IRRIGATION:
Process by which water is artificially supplied to the land
10.
AQUEDUCTS:
Artificial channels for transporting water
11.
HOT SPOT: Hawaii
12.
MAGMA: Liquid
rock within the Earth
13.
MANTLE: Middle of
the Earth where liquid rock is found
14.
CRUST: Layer of the
Earth can be up to 25 miles thick
15.
FOSSIL FUELS: Oil
and coal
16.
RICHTER SCALE: A
scale used for measuring the intensity of an earthquake.
17.
NATURAL
RESOURCES:
a.
Soil and Forests:
Trees, Minerals (Coal, Natural gas, Fossil Fuels)
b.
Air and Water: Air,
water, Oceans, Lakes
c.
Minerals:
Limestone, Aluminum, zinc, sand
d.
Energy Resources:
Fossil Fuels, Solar Power, Wind Power
e.
Vegetation
18.
LANDFORMS:
a.
Volcanoes
b.
Mountains
c.
Valleys
d.
Plains
e.
Hills
f.
Glaciers
g.
Plateaus
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