Features of Earth
Location on Earth
Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
100
The term used to decribe the shape of the Earth when it is spinning. (Decribes when the equator is stretch out.)
What is Oblate Spheroid?
100
The North and South Poles are hugely distorted in this kind of map projection.
What is the Marcator Map Projection?
100
This theory was presented by Alfred Wegner and said that the continents are constantly in motion.
What is Continental Drift?
100
Located on the surface of the earth, right above the the focus of an earthquake.
What is the epicenter?
100
largest volcano that has a violent eruption and ejects pyroclasts.
What is a Composite volcano?
200
Times of the year that correspond with the location and rotation AND revolution of the earth.
What are seasons?
200
Ways to show the World in a flat form.
What are map projections?
200
The SUPER continent.
What is Pangea?
200
The type of Seismic waves that is recorded first by the seismograph.
What are Primary waves?
200
Part of a volcano that holds the lava before it is ejected out the vent of a volcano.
What is the magma chamber?
300
The first and third internal layers of the Earth.
What are (1) the crust and (3) Outer Core?
300
The lines going from left to right and up and down that help us find locations on the Earth.
What are lines of latitude and longitude?
300
Occurs at mid ocean ridges where there are divergent plates.
What is Seafloor spreading?
300
Scale that measure damage in roman numerals and goes up to 12.
What is Marcalli?
300
Lapilli, volcanic dust, volcanic bombs.......
What are types of pyroclasts?
400
The movements of the Earth as it moves around the Sun and spins everyday.
What is rotation and revolution?
400
Shows the distance of a map in relation to the real life size.
What is a map scale?
400
Divergent, Convergent, Transform......
What are types of plate boundaries?
400
States that when built-up energy is released, plates will return to their original shape.
What is the Elastic Rebound Theory?
400
two types of lava
What is mafic and felsic?
500
The second and fourth internal layers of the Earth.
What are (2) the Mantle and (4) the inner core?
500
Uses conture lines to show measurment on elevation.
What is a Topographic map?
500
When one plates gets "sucked" under another.
What is subduction?
500
Scale that measure the intensity of an earthquake and goes up to 10.
What is the Richter Scale?
500
passage lava moves through
What is conduit?
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