Features of the Earth
Location on Earth
Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
100
Earth's shape is a...
What is an oblique spheroid?
100
The invisible grid of the earth is called...
What is latitude and longitude?
100
The Supercontinent is called...
What is Pangea
100
What comes first, P-waves or s-waves?
What is P-waves?
100
A volcano that has a large, sheild-like structure and has runny lava.
What is a sheild volcano?
200
List the layers of the Earth from the outmost layer in.
Crust, mantle, outer core, inner core.
200
Latitude or longitude- which runs north to south?
What is longitude?
200
What occurs at mid-ocean ridges?
Seafloor Spreading
200
Richter scale measures damage, true or false?
What is false?
200
Volcanoes can form from divergent boundaried, true or false?
False
300
Earth rotated around its...
Axis
300
The poles are distorted on the most popular map projection, calles the...
What is Mercator?
300
Seafloor spreading is convergent, true or false?
What is False.
300
The focus is..
where the earthquake occurs
300
Volcanoes can forn by hotspots, true or false?
What is true
400
Why does Earth have seasons?
Because it's tilted on its axis.
400
The measure in elevation.
What is topography?
400
What are the three types of plate boundaries?
What is convergent, divergent, and transform.
400
When rocks snap back in place, this is called...
What is the Elactic rebound Theory?
400
When subduction occurs, can it form a volcano?
Yes.
500
Earth revolves around the...
Sun
500
What compares the map to real life?
What is the map scale?
500
When two plates slide past eachother, this is called...
What is transform?
500
The epicenter is below the focus, true or false?
What is false?
500
List the main three kinds of volcanoes
What is Sheild, Composite, and Cinder cone.
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