T2 Landforms and Geological Processes

What does the term "topography" mean?

• The study of ancient civilizations

• The shape of a region or land

• The climate patterns of an area

• The distribution of plant and animal life

What makes up the geological cycle? Choose more than one answer.

• Water Cycle

• Rock Cycle

• Tectonic Cycle

  Plate Tectonics

Endogenic processes occur __________ the Earth.

A _________ is when the crust is moving apart vertically, while plates slide past each other

• Normal Fault

• Double Fault

• Triple Fault

What does OROGENISIS mean?

• "the birth of mountains"

• origin of deep sea trenches

• beginning of time

• rock cycle

Which type of plate boundary is most commonly associated with volcanic activity due to magma reaching the surface?

• Divergent plate boundary

• Transform plate boundary

• Convergent plate boundary

• Passive plate boundary

What are the two key factors of weathering and erosion?

• wind and water

• sand and dirt

• humans and animals

• humans and farming

Cliffs, canyons, mountains, hills, plateaus, plains, valleys, and islands can all be considered natural features on Earth that we call ________________.

• landforms

• obstacles

• plants

• animals