As in all units, please allow yourself 3 weeks to cover this material. This unit covers a lot of material ... I know that! It covers more material than any other unit, so plan accordingly.
Click
here for material covering glaciers
Click
here for history of glaciation
Key Terms
alpine glacier
continental glacier (ice sheet)
drift
drumlin
erratics
kame
Kettle Moraine Area
kettle
moraine
Pleistocene epoch (the last ice age)
Snowball Earth
stratified drift
till
Click here for information on water
Key Terms
aquifer
groundwater
permeability
porosity
watershed
water table
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Key Terms
longshore current / beach drift
surf zone
wavelength
What is the source of the earth's water? - Click
here to find out.
Learn about the Carbon Cycle by clicking here.
Click here for details. This is probably the most important section in this class ... know it!
Key Terms
active boundary (vs. passive boundary)
continental drift
convergent boundary
divergent boundary
hot spot
island arc
Pangaea
plate tectonics
plates
ring of fire
transform boundary
trench
Mountain building - Click
here
Volcanoes - Click
here
Key Terms
caldera
cinder cone
composite cone (stratovolcano)
craton (shield)
fault block mountain
fold and thrust mountains
isostasy
normal fault
pillow lava
pyroclastic material
reverse fault
shield volcanoes
upwarp mountain
Famous Volcanoes
Kilauea
Mauna Loa
Mount St. Helens
Olympus Mons
Tambora
Toba
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