The level at which the rock is saturated marks this.
What is the water table?
100
Plates move apart, spreading horizontally.
What is a divergent boundary?
100
This is the point where a river enters the ocean, the sediment is deposited in a fan-like landform.
What is a delta?
100
This city is the capital of Spain.
What is Madrid?
200
Molton rock that forms in the mantle and rises through the crust.
What is magma?
200
The continous circulation of water between the atmosphere, the oceans, and the earth.
What is hydrologic cycle?
200
A zone around the rim of the Pacific Ocean, is the location of the vast majority of active volcanoes.
What is the Ring of Fire?
200
Process that breaks rock into smaller pieces.
What is mechanical weathering?
200
The lowest point on earth.
What is the Dead Sea in Africa?
300
Comes from a Greek word meaning "all earth."
What is Pangaea?
300
The largest freshwater lake in the world, it contains 18% of the world's freshwater supply.
What is Lake Baikal in Russia?
300
The point directly above the focus on the earth's surface.
What is the epicenter?
300
Wind-blown silt and clay sediment that produces very fertile soil.
What is loess?
300
This is the deepest river in the world.
What is the Congo River?
400
The part of earth where plants and animals live.
What is the biosphere?
400
The earth's surface from the edge of a continent to the deep part of the ocean.
What is the continental shelf?
400
The San Andreas Fault in California is an example of this type of boundary.
What is a transform boundary?
400
The chemical composition of the original rock before it decomposes.
What is parent material?
400
This is the higest waterfall in the world?
What is Angel Falls in South America?
500
This was the first person to suggest that the seven continents were once all one supercontinent.
What is Francis Bacon in 1620?
500
A raised, flat area of land with steep cliffs, smaller than a mesa.
What is a butte?
500
Name of America's first female astronaut who observed plate tectonics from space.
Who is Sally Ride?
500
When glaciers melt, these rocks are left behind. Rocks left behind by the glacier form this ridge or hill.
What is moraine?
500
Name the location were thousands of Muslims go each year for a religious pilgrimage. Each Muslim is required to visit this location in their life time.