Natural Resources
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Mixed
Vocabulary
100
True of False: Sunlight is a renewable resource.
What is false?
100
Names the landform that is NOT associated with volcanoes:
Calderas, Faults, Lava Flows, Mid-Ocean Ridges
What are vaults?
100
Movement occurs at this break between two tectonic plates, which causes earthquakes.
What is a fault?
100
These volcanoes form when basalt magma forms and cools in layers, forming a flat, rounded edge.
What are shield volcanoes?
200
The ________ is the government agency that monitors the health of the environment and helps to reduce human impact.
What is the EPA?
200
Name the area at which these two plates meet.
What is a subduction zone?
DAILY DOUBLE!: What is the name of the crust that sinks underneath the other?
200
These are the THREE types of forces that move tectonic plates.
What are shear, tension, and compression?
200
Name the layers of the Earth.
What are: Core, Mantle, Crust.
DAILY DOUBLE!: Name the two layers of the mantle.
200
This thermal energy within Earth heats underground water and rocks, which allows for electricity to be produced.
What is geothermal energy?
300
Name the three renewable resources.
What are: Air, Water, Land?
300
Tectonic plates are moved by ____________.
What is convection?
300
Mountains can form when tectonic plates come together at this type of boundary.
What is a convergent boundary?
DAILY DOUBLE!: Name the other area that convergent boundaries can form, which can create earthquakes in-between two plates.
300
Name the type of volcano that is cone-shaped, with steep sides.
What is a composite volcano?
300
Meeting human needs to ensure future generations can also meet their needs.
What is sustainability?
400
This type of resource will never run out, no matter how much it is used.
What is an inexhaustible resource?
400
Name the type of location where volcanoes can form far away from plate boundaries.
What are hot spots?
400
Name one way that Earth's surface can change due to earthquakes.
What are: Mountains, Liquefaction, Tsunamis?
400
This characteristic is what makes resources nonrenewable.
What is being used faster than it can be replaced?
400
This large depression in the center of a volcano builds up in large amounts of magma, then forms due to the pressure.
What is a caldera?
500
True or false: Scientists have developed low-flow shower heads as a way to conserve more water.
What is true?
500
Name the boundary at which mid-ocean ridges occur.
What is a divergent boundary?
DAILY DOUBLE!: What can form at a mid-ocean ridge and how?
500
_____________ boundaries move due to shear force, when the two sides of the boundary move past one another.
What are transform boundaries?
500
Name the three kinds of fossil fuels.
What are coal, oil, and natural gas?
500
If an item cannot be reused, the used product is made into a new product.
What is recycling?