Plate tectonics
Earthquakes
Relief
Weathering & erosion
Hydrosphere
100
Draw on the board the movement of the limits of transform plates.
100
What is magnitude?
Energy released in the form of seismic waves that propagate through the interior of the Earth.
100
What are the four main features of landscape?
Plain, mountain, plateau, depression
100
What kind of weathering is this?
Biological
100
Percentage of freshwater on the Earth
2.5%
200
Tectonic plate boundary that causes fewer earthquakes.
Divergent
200
What's the difference between epicenter and hypocenter?
200
What's the difference bewteen a valley and a basin?
Basin: Shaped like bowls
Valley: Areas of land–scoured and washed out
200
Weathering ________the rock, then erosion ________ this rock away.
Breaks down, carries
200
Water cooling from gas to liquid
Condensation
300
Say the four main inner layers of the Earth from the most superficial to the deepest.
Upper mantle, lower mantle, inner core, outer core.
300
Mention three states that are in the seismic zone of Mexico:
Chiapas, Oaxaca, Guerrero, Michoacán, Colima, Jalisco, Baja California
300
What is the name of the marine relief that is immediate to the continent?
Continental shelf
300
Name the 4 agents of erosion.
Water, wind, ice and people.
300
Name the 5 oceans
Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, Southern
400
What is the name of the most superficial part of the upper mantle where the tectonic plates rest?
Asthenosphere
400
Where do most earthquakes occur and at what plate movements?
In the plate boundaries, specially transform and convergent.
400
Mark on the map three mountain ranges of Mexico
400
What kind of erosion is this?
People
400
How are tides form?
Gravitational force between the Earth, the Moon and the Sun.
500
Name the 5 tectonic plates in which Mexico is located.
North America, Pacific, Rivera, Cocos, Caribbean
500
Look at the following data and determine what is the epicenter, hypocenter and magnitude.
X: 17° 04' 12" N, 100° 40' 12" W
Y: 6.0
Z: 10 km
X = epicenter
Y = magnitude
Z = hypocenter
500
Mention at least 5 landforms
500
How was it formed?
When a mass of ice broke off and slid, forming the moraine
500
Say fresh water distribution on Earth (%)
Ice 69.5%, ground water 30.1%, surface water 0.4%