What are creeps, slumps, rockslides, and mudflows.
100
T or F: Volcanoes form underwater.
What is true.
100
Mass Movements are due to what agent of erosion?
What is gravity.
200
A volcano that is low in silica will most likely have what type of an eruption?
What is quiet.
200
What hypothesis states that continents moved to their present location?
What is continental drift.
200
When moving water, ice, wind, and gravity drops a load of Earth materials in a new place, it is called what?
What is deposition.
200
T or F: Magma becomes lava in Earth's mantle.
What is false - at Earth's surface.
200
Stratovolcano is another name for what type of volcano?
What is composite.
300
This term is used to describe a pocket of magma beneath the surface.
What is magma chamber.
300
This two word term is used to explain the driving force behind plate tectonics.
What is convection currents.
300
What are the two types of glaciers?
What are alpine and continental.
300
T or F: The Asthenosphere is the plastic-like layer in the mantle.
What is true.
300
When lava solidifies it becomes known as what type of rock?
What is igneous.
400
Geologist use this term if they expect a volcano to awaken in the future.
What is dormant.
400
This German scientist was responsible for the theory of continental drift.
Who is Alfred Wegener.
400
Moving air (wind) can carry sand and other particles. When these particles strike rocks, they chip away the surface. What is the name of this term?
What is abrasion.
400
T or F: Hot spots are areas within the core that our hotter than most.
What is false - mantle.
400
What type of plate boundary is the San Andreas fault a part of?
What is transform boundary.
500
A mixture of hot gases, ash, cinders, and bombs that erupt explosively is known as what?
What is pyroclastic flow.
500
This term is given to the rocky outer shell of Earth, which is made up of the crust and the rigid upper part of the mantle.
What is the lithosphere.
500
All of the land where the water collects and flows toward a river is called what?
What is a drainage basin.
500
T or F: Mount St Helen's in Washington State is an example of a Cinder-Cone volcano.
What is false - composite.
500
In 1968, scientist aboard this research ship began gathering information about rocks on the seafloor. They made remarkable discoveries. What was the name of this research ship?