Plate Tectonics
When two continental plates collide, they move up creating this landform.
What are mountains?
Molten rock. Located in a volcano's chamber.
What is magma?
The first step of the water cycle process.
What is evaporation?
What is 24 hours?
The trapping of the sun's heat by gasses in the Earth's atmosphere.
What is the Greenhouse effect?
The name for the 200 million year old supercontinent.
What is Pangea?
The word for magma once it reaches the Earth's surface.
What is lava?
The second step in the water cycle.
What is condensation?
The reason we have different seasons on Earth.
What is the tilt of the Earth's axis?
Earth's layer that contains the continents and the ocean floor.
What is the crust?
The term to describe a volcano that hasn't erupted within 10,000 years and has a little bit of magma still in the chamber.
What is a dormant volcano?
The falling water droplets in the form of rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
What is precipitation?
When the sun's rays are over the equator and day & night are in equal lengths (2 happen each year).
What is an equinox?
The typical weather conditions of a region over a long period of time.
What is climate?
The name of the sliding fault in California. Responsible for massive earthquakes in 1906 and 1989.
What is the San Andreas fault?
The location of where most of the Earth's volcanoes erupt.
What is the Earth's ocean floor?
The last step in the water cycle.
What is runoff?
When the sun reaches the farthest northern or southern point in the sky (happens in the summer and winter).
What is the solstice?
The general term for substances that are discharged into the air. Usually from factories or cars.
What are emissions?
Plates that always fall under continental plates when they collide because they are more dense.
What are oceanic plates?
A zone of volcanoes around the Pacific Ocean. A lot of volcanoes and earthquakes happen here.
What is the Ring of Fire?
Water found beneath the Earth's surface. Where some water goes during the last step of the water cycle.
What is ground water?
The date for the winter solstice.
What is December 22?
The two things that happen to the sun's rays when they reach the Earth.
What are bouncing off into space and getting trapped in the atmosphere?