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1ºESO THE GEOSPHERE

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    Relief and landforms 1ºESO
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  • What was Pangaea?
    It was a supercontinent that incorporated almost all the landmasses on Earth.
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  • What is a cape?
    It's a piece of land that extends into the sea. A small one is called a POINT.
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  • Complete the sentence: An ....... is a group of islands.
    An archipelago.
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  • What is a small gulf?
    A bay.
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  • Which two factors are responsible for the shaping of the Earth's relief?
    By plate tectonics and external agents.
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  • What 4 different processes occur in orogenesis?
    Folding, folding and subduction, fault blocks and volcanic mountain formation.
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  • What external agents modify elevated landforms?
    Erosion, transportation and deposition.
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  • This is a thin layer of Earth, made of rocks.
    The crust.
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  • This forms the largest part of the Earth.
    The mantle.
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  • The core is the ..........layer of the Earth.
    Innermost.
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  • The three main types of relief on the Earth's surface are:
    coastal, oceanic and continental relief.
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  • What is the difference between altitude and height?
    Height is measuring from the base of a mountain until it's peak and altitude is the height of a mountain peak above sea level.
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  • Biological erosion is caused by....
    plants and people.
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  • The lowest continental landforms are....
    plains.
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  • The largest continent is....
    Asia.
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  • What type of mountain formation occurs when tectonic plates made of hard materials collide?
    A fault block.
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