Earth
What are the three layers of the Earth
What are crust, mantle, and core?
A collision boundary is called
What is a convergent boundary?
Places in the ocean floor where hot mineral-rich water exits from cracks in the Earth's crust is called
What are hydrothermal vents?
Nuclear process that releases energy when nuclei combine
What is nuclear fusion?
This type of chemical is produced as steam when lava meets the ocean
What is hydrochloric acid?
Falling water and Run of River are two categories of what type of power
What is hydropower?
The Earth's crust is separated into these 2 layers
What is oceanic and continental?
The area of origin of an earthquake is called
What is the epicenter?
The worst earthquake in world history happened in this country
What is Chile?
This makes up 70% of US power
What is fossil fuels?
What is the equator?
Hydropower is affected by these 2
What are seasonal changes and amount of rainfall?
The hottest layer of the Earth
What is the inner core?
When one plate slides under another this is called
What is subduction?
A large mass of igneous rock that forms when magma emerges and solidifies is called
What is a batholith?
Energy from hot rocks deep beneath the Earth's surface is what
What is geothermal energy?
Density depends on what two factors
What is mass and volume?
Tidal, Wave, and Ocean thermal are types of what
What are Marine energy?
The sphere that contains the mantle and the crust
What is the asthenosphere?
When two plates slide parallel to each other what type of boundary is this
What are the mantle and crust?
What is uranium?
When heating air in a hot air balloon what increases the mass or the volume?
The process in which water, sand, and chemicals are pumped underground to break apart rock is called
What is fracking?
The theory of the movement of the Earth's lithosphere is called
What is Plate Tectonics?
Ocean to ocean or ocean to continent boundaries are called
What are convergent boundaries?
Area where two continents have collided and been welded together is called
What is the suture zone?
Fossil fuels being used at a faster rate then we can produce them makes them this type of resource
What is non-renewable?
The valley that is formed above the zone of bending is called
What is a trench?
Movement of carbon dioxide is called
What is flux?