Features of the Earth
Location on Earth
Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
100
The Earth is not a perfect sphere, instead it is this.
What is an Oblate Spheroid?
100
These lines help measure north and south.
What are lines of latidtude?
100
He came up with the theory of plate tectonics.
Who is Alfred Wegner?
100
This is when rocks snap back into place.
What is the elastic rebound theory?
100
This is the biggest of the three volcano types we learned.
What is composite?
200
This is the inner most layer of the Earth.
What is the Inner Core?
200
These lines help measure east and west.
What are lines of longitude?
200
This is the thoery of the continents moving apart.
What is Continental Drift?
200
This is where stress is released.
What is te focus?
200
This is a flat nonexplosive volcano.
What is a sheild volcano?
300
The Earth spins on this.
What is an axis?
300
This map projection is highly distorted at the poles.
What is the Mercator?
300
This was the supercontinent from when all the continents were together.
What is Pangea?
300
This is located direclty above to focus.
What is the epicenter?
300
This type of volcano erupts cinders.
What is a cinder cone?
400
The Earth revoloves, or this, around the sun.
What is orbits?
400
This provides a ratio comparing the model to the real life thing.
What is a map scale?
400
These are the three types of plate boundaries.
What are convergent, divergent, and transform?
400
This measures Earthquakes.
What is a seismograph?
500
These are created due to the Earth's tilted axis.
What are seasons?
500
These are the lines to show evelation.
What are contour lines?
500
Seafloor speading occurs along this plate.
What is divergent?
500
this is the range of the Richter Scale.
What is 1-10?
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