Chapter 4 – Landforms and Rivers (Continued)
Use your textbooks (-pg74 onwards) and the red atlases on the side shelf to complete the following questions:
1. Approximately how many years ago did volcanic activity create the shield regions making up Pangaea?
2. Explain what igneous rock is.
3. What causes igneous rock to become metamorphic rock?
4. Explain what erosion is and list three forces that contribute to it.
5. Explain how sedimentary rock is formed.
6. Which mountain range runs North-South along the North American continent?
7. Which mountain range runs North-South along the South American continent?
8. Which mountain range can be found in parts of France, Austria and Switzerland?
9. Explain how Fold Mountains are formed.
10. Where are the Appalachian mountains and what types of rock are they made of?
11. What types of rock are the Coast Mountains, which run along the Western coast of North America, made of?
12. What caused the Coast Mountains to form?
13. Explain what Plains and Lowlands are.
14. What causes the Rocky Mountains to form?
15. What type of map is on page 76 of your text book. Briefly explain how you know.
16. Explain what a topographic map is.
17. What is the purpose of contour lines on a topographic map?
18. What does the word elevation mean?
19. Would there be very many or very few contour lines on a very high mountain?
20. As the elevation decreases, what happens to the distance between contour lines?
21. Looking back at Chapter 3, design and answer two “thinking” questions that would be interesting to include on the unit test.
Math
-pg 121 #1-6
-Explain, in your own words, what a sequence (pg 125) is, what a term (pg 125) is and what a table of values is (pg 121).
-pg 133 #6, 7
