Energy
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Plate Tectonics
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Energy
Plate Tectonics
Critical Thinking
(Energy and Plate Tectonics)
(Energy and Plate Tectonics)
100
The term "e-waste" stands for...
Electronic Waste
100
The slab of lithosphere that can move on the planet's surface.
What are plate tectonics?
100
Fossil fuels, coal, oil, and natural gas are part of this resource.
What is non-renewable resources?
100
I am an example of what?
What are transform boundaries
100
I am needed by anything that moves or changes in any way.
What is energy?
200
- Energy resources are used faster than they can be replaced; supply is limited
- Energy resources will not run out because they are replaced as quickly as they are used.
What are non-renewable resources?
What are renewable resources?
200
Plates that move away from one another.
What are divergent plate boundaries?
200
True or False: Fossil fuels will last for another 500 years.
What is false?
200
The layer that underlies the crust, is denser than the crust.
What is the mantel?
200
Name 4 renewable resources that we've discussed.
Responses may vary.
300
The energy of anything in motion.
What is kinetic energy?
300
The fixed place under a plate where magma rises and may create volcanoes.
What are hot spots?
300
___ can be cleaned by plants, as they remove CO2 and replace it with oxygen.
What is air?
300
Continental plates do not subduct because they...
Are thick and low in density.
300
Where does most volcanoes form?
What are subduction zones?
400
The process that feeds plants and animals.
What is photosynthesis?
400
The solid plastic layer of the mantel beneath the lithosphere.
What is the asthenosphere?
400
Fossil fuels releases the following. These causes a rise in global temperatures.
What is carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases?
400
Where two plates move towards each other.
What are convergent plate boundaries?
400
Subduction zone, batholiths, and island arcs all are phases that appear in which boundary?
What are convergent boundaries?
500
The law stating that energy can neither be created nor destroyed is.
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy
500
The region along a plate boundary where one plate moves under another plate.
What are subduction zones?
500
This is an energy by-product of fuel
What is heat?
500
The movement of heated material due to differences in density which is caused by a difference in temperature.
What is convection?
500
Crust is neither created nor destroyed at which boundary?
What is s transform boundary?