Pollution
Volcanoes
Natural Resources
Mixed
EQ's and Tectonics
100
This form of protection around the Earth prevents the Sun's most harmful UV radiation from reaching the Earth.
What is the ozone layer?
100
Molten rock below Earth's surface.
What is magma?
100
Fossil fuels and minerals make up this type of resource.
What is a nonrenewable resource?
100
This theory states that Earth's crust is broken into rigid plates that move slowly over Earth's surface.
What is plate tectonics (or plate tectonic theory)?
100
A break in Earth's crust where the crust moves back and forth.
What is a fault?
200
This acidic rain or snow forms when waste gas from cars and power plants combine with moisture in the air.
What is acid precipitation?
200
Locations where volcanoes form that are far away from plate boundaries.
What are hot spots?
200
____________ resources will never run out, no matter how much is used.
What is Inexhaustible?
200
Mountains that form as lava builds at a divergent boundary, which can become volcanoes.
What are mid-ocean ridges?
200
This plate boundary causes two plates to move toward each other.
What is a convergent boundary?
300
This scientific observation states that Earth's average temperature is increasing, which can lead to climate change in weather, ecosystems, and increased floods and droughts.
What is global warming?
300
These volcanoes are common along divergent plate boundaries and oceanic hot spots; they form large gentle slopes of basaltic lava/rock
What are shield volcanoes?
300
Select the following that is NOT an inexhaustible resource:
Geothermal energy, Solar energy, Water, Wind power
What is water?
300
These volcanoes form as lava flows and ash deposit by explosive eruptions and often have steep sides and are cone-shaped.
What are composite volcanoes?
300
Name the pictured area, where one plate slides underneath another.
What is a subduction zone?
400
This type of pollution is characterized by pesticides that can pollute soil and oil spills and fossil fuels from industries and mining.
What is land pollution?
400
This is a large depression (dent) in the center of a volcano.
What is a caldera?
400
This fact is true about both renewable and nonrenewable resources.
What is: both can run out if they are used too quickly?
400
This layer of the Earth contains the lithosphere.
What is the crust?
500
Photochemical smog and ozone loss contribute to this type of pollution.
What is air pollution?
500
Explosive eruptions can eject ____________ high into the atmosphere, which can pollute the air with carbon dioxide and volcanic debris.
What is volcanic ash?
500
One of the following is NOT a fossil fuel:
Coal, natural gas, copper, natural oil
What is copper?
500
Long streams of molten rock that cool and solidify to form solid rock.
What are lava flows?
500
New crust can form at this type of boundary when magma flows up to the oceanic crust from the mantle and cools.
What is a divergent boundary?