Handwritten Notes

1. What is the theory of plate tectonics?






2. What is continental drift?




3. Where are volcanoes typically found?




4. What are the two definitions for volcanoes?






5. What is lava?





6. What are earthquakes?




7. When do earthquakes occur?





8. Where do earthquakes commonly occur?


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9. What is weathering?





10. What is erosion?





11. What is the most powerful force of erosion?




12. What are the three other causes of erosion?




13. What are glaciers?




14. What are natural resources?





15. What are the two kinds of natural
resources?




16. What are renewable resources?




17. Which three factors affect soil’s profile?



18. What are the two ways to preserve soil’s
fertility?




19. What are the three ways to prevent soil
exhaustion?






20. What are three reasons that forests are
valued and needed?






21. What is deforestation?




22. What are the three main causes of
deforestation?






23. What is reforestation?




24. Why is polluted air a bad thing?




25. What are the four ways that people have
moved water for centuries?




26. What are four renewable energy resources?
27. What is hydroelectric power?




28. What is geothermal energy?




29. What are nonrenewable resources?




30. What are four metals that are nonrenewable?




31. Why have nonrenewable energy resources become more useful and valuable?




32. Which nonrenewable energy resource is
radioactive?




33. Why is uranium useful and valuable?




34. What is a positive associated with the use
of nuclear power plants?




35. What is a negative associated with the use
of nuclear power plants?




36. What has limited the use of nuclear power?


37. What are fossil fuels?




38. What are three fossil fuels?




39. For what has coal long been used?




40. What two things did coal first power?




41. For what does coal remain an important fuel?




42. What is a disadvantage to burning coal?




43. What is an advantage to burning coal?




44. How was petroleum (oil) first used?




45. Which invention expanded the market for
oil?




46. What happened to oil as it became more
useful?




47. What is a negative of oil?




48. For what is natural gas important?




49. What advantage do natural gas and oil have
over coal?




50. Why is natural gas growing in importance?




51. What is happening to the price of natural
gas?

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52. How were mountains and valleys built?




53. What is a plateau?




54. What is a plain?




55. How were plateaus and plains created?




56. How are sand dunes created?




57. What is a floodplain?




58. Which three aspects of landforms have
influenced human settlement and
transportation throughout history?





59. Where have people tended to settle?




60. For what two things do people use rivers?





61. What are three ways that people have
changed Earth’s surface to suit their needs?








62. What is the process called whereby salt is
removed from ocean water?




63. Why are large lakes able to reduce the
severity of the climates on their shores?





64. What is an estuary?




65. What do estuaries provide?




66. What is a wetland?




67. What are people doing to wetlands?







68. What do floods erode?




69. What do floods destroy?




70. What do floods drown?




71. How do humans make floods worse?






72. What are two reasons that people choose
to live next to rivers?