Chapter 2 Studying Earth's Surfaces

Forces that cause landforms to grow is a _

• ocean basins

• deconstructive forces

• trench

• constructive forces

Destructive forces include the following

• weathering

• earthquakes

• sediment deposit

• landslides

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Ocean basins are older than continents.

• True

• False

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Why is the Earth's continents not flat?

• Erosion is always moving sediments.

• Earthquakes destroy large areas.

• There are constructive forces that build landforms

• Weathering breaks down the rocks.

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Volcanoes are an example of constructive and destructive forces.

• True

• False

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It is possible to get the general distance from one location to another on a globe.

• True

• False

The way to represent Earth's curves surface on flat paper is called

• winkel

• globe

• mercator

• projection

The best projection for north or south pole areas would be the

• Robinson

• Mercator

• Conic

• Gnomonic

A Mercator Projection map is best in for the areas of the

• Northern Hemispher

• Southern Hemisphere

• Equator

• North and South Poles

Robinson Projection map has straight latitude line and curved meridians.

• True

• False