FEATURES OF EARTH
LOCATION ON EARTH
PLATE TECTONICS
EARTHQUAKES
VOLCANOES
100
what are the four seasons the earth goes thru?
What is spring, summer, fall, winter
100
What is the difference between latitude and longitude?
What is latitude-horizontal, longitudde-vertical
100
What was the supercontinent called?
What is pangea
100
Name the two kinds of sismic waves?
What is primary and secondary
100
What is the ring of fire?
What is a zone of volcanic activity along the edge of the pacific ocean
200
What is the difference between rotation and revolution?
What is rotation is the earth spining on its axis, revolution is the earth going around the sun in its orbit
200
What is topography?
What is the measure of elevation
200
Which boundry do earthquakes normally happen at?
What is transform
200
Were is the epicenter lcated
What is directly above the focus on the surface of the earth
300
What shape is the earth?
What is an oblate spheroid
300
What does a scale do?
What is compares map to real life
300
Seafloor spreading is what kind of boundary?
What is divergent
300
Which waves come first primary or secondary?
What is primary
300
What are the two types of mafic lava?
What is pahoehoe and aa
400
Name the internal layers of the earth in order from inside out?
What is innner core, outer core, mantle, crust
400
When using a mercader map projection what part is greatlly distorted?
What is the poles
400
Who came up with the continental drift theory?
What is Alfred Wegner
400
Does the Mercalli Scale measure, damage or energy?`
What is damge
500
Does rotation or revolution affect the seasons?
What is both
500
Give an example of scale?
What is 1:1000 inches
500
Name the three types of convergent boundries and what happens at each?
What is continental on continental- mountain formed, oceanic on continental- oceanic crust subducted and volcanoe is formed, oceanic on oceanic- heavier oceanic subducted and volcanic island
500
Explain the Elastic Rebound Theory?
What is the pressure breaks and the crust snaps back into place
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