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2. Exploring Earth’s Surface
What is Science?
Types of Landforms
Exploring Earth’s Surface
Topographic Maps
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3. This is a possible explanation for a set of observations.
What is a hypothesis?
This is a possible explanation
for a set of observations.
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4. What are plains?
Coastal and interior
are both examples
of these.
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5. What is the prime meridian?
This imaginary line
divides Earth into the
eastern and western
hemispheres.
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6. An area’s elevation, relief and landforms determine this.
What is topography?
An area’s elevation,
relief and landforms
determine this.
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7. Scientists design these
What is an experiment?
Scientists design these
to test a hypothesis.
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8. A landform with high elevation and a more
What is a plateau?
A landform with high
elevation and a more
or less level surface.
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9. What is an interior plain?
This landform has a
low elevation
and very little relief.
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10. The difference in elevation between two contour lines.
What is a contour interval?
The difference in elevation
between two contour lines.
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11. Using reason to explain or interpret an observation.
What is inferring?
Using reason to explain
or interpret an observation.
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12. What are mountains in a mountain range? These are closely related
in shape, structure
and age.
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13. The distance in degrees equator are called these.
What are latitudes?
The distance in degrees
north and south of the
equator are called these.
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14. Contour lines spaced very close together represent this.
What is a steep slope?
Contour lines spaced very
close together represent this.
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15. What are observing, inferring and predicting? scientists use to learn
These are the skills that
scientists use to learn
more about the world.
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16. This landform has both a
What is a mountain?
This landform has both a
high elevation and a
high relief.
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17. Mountains, plains and plateaus are the three main types of these.
What are landforms?
Mountains, plains and
plateaus are the three
main types of these.
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18. What are v-shaped contour lines? These pointing downhill
show a ridge line
on a topographic map.
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19. The sharing of experimental
What is communicating?
The sharing of experimental
findings and ideas
with others.
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20. The difference between these two mountain features
What are the peak and the base?
The difference between
these two mountain features
are used to determine
relief.
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21. to distance on Earth’s surface.
What is scale?
A map’s THIS relates
distance on a map
to distance on Earth’s surface.
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22. The difference in elevation of 12 contour lines equals this.
What is 600m?
The contour interval
on a topographic
map is 50m.
The difference in elevation of
12 contour lines equals this.
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