Landforms
Plate Tectonics
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Weathering & Erosion
100
The largest landform beneath the ocean is this.
What is ocean basin?
100
A scientist who studies the structure and history of the earth.
What is a geologist?
100
Volcanoes tend to erupt at places where tectonic plates do this.
What is one moves under another?
100
The measurement of how much energy an earthquake releases. Measured by the Richter scale.
What is magnitude?
100
The type of weathering that was shown when the piece of chalk was scraped against the sandpaper.
What is physical weathering?
200
Earth's outer core is made up of this.
What is liquid metal?
200
The force that creates folded mountains.
What is compression?
200
A caldera forms when this happens.
What is a volcano collapses (after its magma chamber is emptied)?
200
The place where Earth's slipping motion begins is called this.
What is the focus?
200
The process of eroded materials being dropped off at another location.
What is deposition?
300
This part of the mantle is made up almost-melted rock.
What is the asthenosphere?
300
The name of the geologist who first had the idea of Continental Drift.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
300
This is the opening in a volcano where magma is released.
What is a vent?
300
To pinpoint an earthquake's epicenter, scientists need information from how many seismometers?
What is three?
300
These are created when slow-moving rivers erode and deposit sediment along the banks.
What are meanders?
400
This type of map uses lines to show elevation.
What is a topographical map?
400
A force that twists, tears, or pushes one part of the crust past another is called this.
What is shear?
400
Where is the Ring of Fire?
What is around the Pacific Ocean?
400
This is the difference between the Richter Scale and the Mercalli Scale.
What is Mercalli measures damage done and Richter measures magnitude.
400
The long sandbars that winds create along a coastline.
What are barrier islands?
500
Small streams that start in mountains and join larger streams are called this.
What are tributaries?
500
Describe one piece of evidence that supports the theory of continental drift.
What is *** varies***
500
The Aleutian Islands in Alaska are an example of this.
What is an island arc?
500
This is why earthquakes most frequently occur at plate boundaries.
What is one plate shifts under another and causes the solid rock to melt forming more magma than can be held underneath the crust?
500
This causes chemical weathering.
What is the breaking down of chemical bonds/ creating new chemical makeups of minerals/ breaking down material's composition?
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