This topographical map allows the readers to see patterns in the Earth's landforms. The earthquake faults are red, orange, and purple, and they can be seen focused on the Western side of the United States.  There are some earthquake faults off the coast of Mexico, Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi in the southern US as well. Using maps like these are beneficial for identifying patterns and finding details to describe them. The United States as a whole, including the southern US and the western US, is NOT devoid of earthquake fault lines, so none of the answer choices are correct.

This map is an excellent choice for viewing all of the different features and landforms that the United States has to offer. Some parts of the country are mountainous, others have large bodies of water, and an ocean surrounds some. If someone is looking to move to a place with forested and wooded areas they could move to the western US, southeastern US, or the northeastern US. All of these areas are featured in green which indicated forests and woods.

The statement in the question is false. Landforms are always changing, and patterns can be seen in their structures over time. Mountains are massive, so they don’t seem to change, but they are changing all the time. Slowly, over many years, tall, pointed mountains can be worn down until they are lower and more rounded.

This map is an excellent choice for viewing all of the different continents and their concentration of tall trees in one visual. Some continents have areas with broad groupings of high canopies while others are bare and colored in white to represent no trees. A pattern that can be identified from this map is that South America has an enormous concentration of tall trees. Northern Africa has no colored parts signifying no tall trees, Australia has some tall canopies on the East coast. Still, it is overall bare, and North America has many mixed height forests.

The photo that Tara selects for evidence must support the idea that landscapes have changed over millions of years. Two of the images show rocks of different colors or sizes, but they are not showing how the landscape has changed. The photo of the forest does not include rock layers or rock formations. The correct picture is from Switzerland and shows large rock formations that have been worn away by years of weathering and erosion.

The term landscape is used in science to describe the visible features of an area. If someone were standing on the edge of a canyon, they could explain the scene in terms of appearance, texture, color, relative size, landmarks, etc.. If it is something underground or hidden within a structure, it is not considered to be part of the landscape.

Many factors go into changing a landscape, and some will accelerate the process while others will slow it down. Moisture, human activity, and temperature are all factors that will affect how a landscape changes or is formed. Regularly being beaten down by the wind, water, the hot sun, frigid temperatures, and human construction will change the landscape. As water rushes through the base of a canyon, it is breaking apart the rock and moving it. Sand striking the cliffs on a shoreline will tear it apart grain by grain. Water seeping into rocks and then freezing and unfreezing will eventually break the rocks apart. These factors make changes to the landscape.

Layers of rock and fossils are like diaries of how the landscape has changed over time. Each layer contains information about the conditions and the scene at that time. Researchers can analyze the age of the rock and build a picture of what it looked like during that stage. Fossils help scientists to know what living things were in the area at the time and whether there were changes in water levels and weather conditions.

The statement is true. Scientists know that landscapes have changed over the years due to the information collected regarding rock formations, layers, and fossils. Looking at the type of plants or animals in the layers can tell us approximately how long ago they lived. The rock formations can show researchers how the wind and water have battered the area over the year and broken the rocks down. Rock layers and fossils are vital to learning about landscapes.

Human activity such as cutting down forests and acid rain caused by pollution can cause changes to Earth’s landscapes. General construction is another example of a way in which humans can create semi-permanent changes in the landscape.