Features of the Earth
Location on the Earth
Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
100
Because the earth is an oblate spheriod
What isn't the earth perfectly round?
100
Latitude goes east to west, longitude goes from north to south.
What is latitude and longitude
100
Occurs at the mid-ocean ridges
Where does seafloor speading occur
100
Stress builds up, then snaps and eventually goes back into place.
What is the elastic rebound theory
100
Cinder cone, Composite and shield
What are the three types of volcanoes
200
Crust, mantle, outercore and the innercore
What are the internal zones of the earth
200
Example: the mercater map has true directions and distance
What is map projections
200
Continental drift is plates drifting away
What is continental drift and pangaea
200
Primary and secondary
What are the kinds of seismic waves
200
Subduction where most volcanoes form and hot spots are in the middle of the plate.
What is the volcano formation
300
Because of the rotation of the earth, above or below the equator.
Why do we have seasons?
300
How big the real thing is compared to the map.
What is map scale
300
Divergent, convergent and transform
What are the three types of plate boundaries
300
They measure earthquakes
What does the seismographs do?
300
Mafic(runny) Felsic(thicker)
What are the types of lava?
400
The earth spins on an axis, the revolution is around the sun.
What is the rotation and revolution of the earth?
400
The elevation, changes in height
What is topography?
400
Wenger
Who came up with continental drift and pangaea
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