Plate Tectonics
Large Pieces of Rock Under The Earth's Surface.
What is Plate Tectonics?
An Overflowing Amount of Water That Mostly Reaches Land.
What is a Flood?
Moving Bodies of Ice That Can Change Landscapes. (Alpine and Ice Sheets)
What is a Glacier?
Forms When Multiple Tectonic Plates Collide. (Caused By Convergent Movement)
What is Mountain Formation?
Hot Magma Released through a Volcanic Eruption.
What is Lava?
When Multiple Tectonic Plates Collide Into Each Other.
What is a Convergent Boundary?
When a Divergent Boundary Moves On a Fault Line Between Two Tectonic Plates.
What is an Earthquake?
The Movement Caused Within a Fluid By The Tendency of Hotter and Less Dense Material.
What is Convection?
When Rocks and Soil are Broken Down into Smaller Pieces.
What is Weathering?
Hot Liquid Under Earth's Surface.
What is Magma?
When Tectonic Plates Pull Away From Each Other.
What is a Divergent Boundary?
An Opening in The Earth Which Releases Magma, Gas, and Ash and are Found at The Boundrys of Tectonic Plates.
What is a Volcanic Eruption?
Marks Positions in The Water.
What is a Surface Buoy?
When Rocks and Soil Move Downhill To Another Place. (Takes Place Over Many Years)
What is Erosion?
Formed From Divergent Plate Boundaries and Releases Hot Magma in The Ocean. (Found In The Arctic, Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans)
What is Ocean Basin Formation?
When Tectonic Plates Slide Against Each Other.
What is a Transform Boundary?
Masses Of Rock And Debris That Move Down a Slope Due To Gravity.
What is a Landslide?
Tool To Measure Slight Changes in Volcanoes.
What is a Tiltmeter?
When Rocks and Soil are Broken Down Due To Wind, Rain ETC.
What is Mechanical Weathering?
80-90 Percent of Volcanoes are Found Here. (Located on The Pacific Plate)
What is The Ring Of Fire?
When Tectonic Plates Collide and One goes Under The Other.
What is Subduction?
Large Ocean Waves Created By an Underwater Event Such as an Earthquake or a Volcano.
What is a Tsunami?
A Device That is Sensitive to Vibrations and Works on a Pendulum.
What is a Seismometer?
When Rocks and Soil are Broken Down Due To Acid Rain, Greenhouse Gasses ETC.
What is Chemical Weathering?
This Includes The Crust, Mantle, The Outer Core, and The Inner Core.
What are The Four Layers of Earth?