LA History Ch1
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| What is Pangea | Super continent containing all landforms on earth
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| Fact about a landform (sedimentary rock) | only type of rock found naturally in LA
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| Fact about a landform (brackish water) | mixture of salt and freshwater
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| Fact about a landform (mudlumps) | Found in Mississippi River delta
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| What is a salt dome? | An area where ancient sees dried up and lie about 10 miles below ground and appear as wooded hils
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| How important are the salt mines to our state? | one of LA's most important industries
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| what is another use for salt domes once the salt is gone? | storage sites for oil since it is dense and oil can't penetrate
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| fact about the Louisiana marshland | largest marshland in U.S.
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| fact about the Louisiana marshland | wet grasses and deposited sediment
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| where does sedimentary rock form and how is it formed | formed under the tremendous weight of the layers
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| 2 factors that cause erosion | humans, wave action
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| 2 factors that slow erosion | grasses have been planted, sand pumped back into barrier islands
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| 3 resources our state has | coal, oil, sulphur
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| 5 islands that are home to salt domes in our state | Jefferson, Avery, weeks, cote blanche, belle
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| how do barrier islands protect Louisiana's mainland from erosion | absorb storms, protect from erosion, block salt water from entering marshlands during storms
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| T/F our state has the largest marshland area in the U.S. | True
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| T/F the mouth of the Mississippi River was once located in what is now Arkansas | True
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| T/F earthquakes do not occur in our state | False
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| T/F belle island is the second largest salt mine in the world | True
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| T/F an underground earthquake that causes big waves, destruction and death is a fault | False
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| T/F one major industry in our state is salt mining | True
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| T/F Fan shaped landforms called deltas are made when a river connects with an ocean | True
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| T/F the study of the sea is called geology | False
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| T/F rivers usually flow in a straight line | False
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| T/F the red river has followed the same course for centuries | False
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| T/F Pangaea was the original for south American | False
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| T/F there are many species of animals on a barrier islands | True
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| T/F glaciers once covered LA | True
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