Volcanoes
What is molten rock called before the volcano erupts?
What is magma
What are 3 kinds of energy resources?
What is Solar, Hydro, Wind, Nuclear, Fossil, or Geothermal.
What is the definition of climate change?
What is long-term shifts in temperature and weather patterns.
What is the rock cycle.
A basic concept in geology that describes transitions through geological time among the 3 rock types.
What is the largest volcano above water?
What is Mauna Loa.
What causes wind?
What is the o-zone layer
What is the protective atmosphere around the earh that protects us from the radiation of the sun
What causes the rock to change shape?
What is heat, pressure, and melting.
Where is the majority of volcanoes found?
What is the ocean floor.
3 examples of high latitude climates?
Taiga, Tundra, Polar.
What are 3 major pollutants?
Nuclear waste, human waste, greenhouse gases, industrialization, over-production
What are the 3 rock types in the rock cycle?
What is igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic.
How do volcanos occur
What is magma being pushed through vents and fissures to the surface of the earth.
How many degrees will the global average temperature rise by 2050?
What is a projected 2.8 degrees celsius.
What powers the rock cycle?
What is Earths internal heat engine, or the hydrological cycle.
The only active volcano on the mainland of Europe.
What is Mount Vesuvius.
The 3 countries that produce the most greenhouse gases.
What are China, USA, and India
Name at least 4/7 of the stages of the rock cycle.
What is Weathering, Erosion and Transport, Deposition of Sediment, Burial and Compaction, Crystallization of Magma, Melting, Uplift, and Deformation and Metamorphism.