Large Scale Events
The _______ core is made of liquids and the ________ is made of very hot metal.
A mass amount of water on the ground.
What is a flood?
What is a transform boundary?
Hot, less dense liquids rising, and cold, dense liquids sinking is what happens through this process.
What is convection?
A rock breaks into smaller particles through this process.
What is weathering?
The floor of the ocean.
What is an ocean basin?
It is magma inside the volcano, it is this outside the volcano.
What is lava?
This plate boundary forms mountains.
What is a convergent boundary?
What is a tsunami?
The Grand Canyon has a unique shape because of this small scale earth process.
What is erosion?
A tool used to detect the tilt of the Earth.
What is a tiltmeter?
These two things are needed for a landslide to occur.
What is slope and gravity?
What is a divergent plate boundary?
This is the process of a plate becoming tilted, facing toward the mantle of the Earth.
What is subduction?
Thus process causes your bike to rust.
What is chemical weathering?
To be considered a glacier, it has to have the characteristics of being made of ice and snow, being around all year, and this characteristic.
What is moving?
The tool used to detect earthquakes.
What is a seismograph?
Volcanoes are located on this part of a plate tectonic.
When a plate goes under the crust and into this layer, it becomes jelly like.
What is the mantle?
This land form created the mass destruction of Mt. Saint Helens.
What is a volcano?
This is a very deep valley in an ocean floor.
What is an oceanic trench?
The tool used to measure the scale of an earthquake.
What is a seismometer?
The plate boundaries on the Pacific Ocean cause this area with many volcanoes.
What is the Ring of Fire?
This tool is used to detect the location of a diver.
What are surface buoys?
Abrasion, freezing and thawing, animal actions, plant activity, and exfoliation are forms of this.
What is mechanical weathering?