Features of the Earth
Location of the Earth
Plate Tetonics
Earthquake
Volcanoes
100
What is a equinox?
What is the two dates per year which direct sunlight strikes the equator.
100
What is geomagnetic poles?
What is the two points on the earth where the earths magnetic feilds meet.
100
What is the Island Arc?
What is a chain of volcanic isands that form at the subduction zone.
100
What are after shocks?
What is small earthqaukes causes from the readjustment of plates after a major earthquake
100
What is a crater?
What is a feature produced when the vent of a volcano is blown apart during eruption.
200
What is seismic waves?
What is waves created from movement within the earth.
200
What is a cartography?
What is the study of maps.
200
What is the litosphere?
What is the crust and uppermost mantle
200
What are s waves?
What is secondary waves.
300
What is the rotation?
What is the spinning of the earth on its axis (24 hours)
300
What are meridians?
What is imaginary lines which run vertically across the earth to distingusish location on earth.
300
What is divergent boundrey?
What is where to plates move apart from one another.
300
What a p waves?
What is primary waves
300
What is volcano ash?
What is slightly thicker than dust
400
What is the mantle?
What is the transional, semi-liquid layer underlying the crust.
400
What is latitude?
What is imaginary lines which run horizontally across the earth to distinguish location of earth.
400
What is transform boundery?
What is where to plates slide past one another.
400
What is fault zones?
What is regions where plates under stress move apart.
400
What is a caldera?
What is a feature produced when an emptied magma chamber causes a volcano
500
What is a aphelion?
What is the date which the earth is farthest from the sun during its orbit
500
What are parallels?
What is imaginary lines which run horizontally across the earth to distinguish location on earth
500
What is pangaea?
What is the proposed supercontinent 200 million years ago
500
What is elastic rebound theory?"
What is the straighthening of plates after plates under stress snap
500
What are hot spots?
What is regions underneath litoshperic plates which are abnormally hot.
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