Plate Tectonics
What is a Landform?
A landform is a land feature on Earth.
How are Earthquakes and Volcanoes similar.
Ex: They are similar because they are along the edges of Tectonic plates
What are dreams?
Expressions of unfulfilling wishes.
What is the shape of the Ring Of Fire?
a horseshoe
Who created convection currents?
Arthur Holmes
What is Plate Tectonics?
The theory that Earth's outer shell is divided into several plates that glide over the Mantle.
What is an earthquake measured on?
A magnitude scale.
Describe poison ivy.
Grows as a trailing vine, climbing vine, shrub.
Has a hairy vine.
Grows in wooded areas.
Has three leaflets that are somewhat shiny and have a smooth surface and relatively smooth edges.
how many volcanoes are at the ring of fire?
452
True or False, Harry Hess came up with Seafloor Spreading.
True
What are Alfred Wegener's theories? Explain what each of them state.
Alfred Wegener's theories were Pangaea and Continental Drift. Pangaea explained how all the continent were once joined together as one and then got separated over time which formed our 7 continents, this is continental drift.
Name a volcano that erupted in America.
What is the farthest planet from the sun?
Neptune
Are all of the Volcanoes in the Ring Of Fire active.
Yes.
What tools did Harry Hess use to find Ocean Trenches.?
Ocean mapping tools.
Why is the Core the densest layer.
It is the densest layer because all the rocks are pressing on it.
Name the four types of volcanoes.
Composite, Shield, Cinder Cone, and Fissure volcanoes.
How fast does the speed of light go.
186,000 miles per hour
Whats another name for the Ring Of Fire
The Pacific Circum-belt.
What Scientist was Alfred Wegener?
A meteorologist
Name all the Boundaries and the directions they move in and the land forms they form.
Divergent boundries move away from each other. Valleys and sea floor spreding occurs
Convegent boundries move toward each other. They form volcanoes, mountians and subduction zones .
Transform boundries move side to side with each other. Faults and some times subduction can form.
Name the biggest Volcano.
(Hint it is in Hawaii.)
Mauna Loa
What percentage of earth is covered with water?
71%
Which country is Sakurajima the volcano in.
Japan
What is Harry Hess's full name?
Harry Hammond Hess.