Features of the ocean
Location on Earth
Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
volcanoes
100
Crust
What is the outermost layer of the earth that is thin and rocky?
100
Parallel
What are the imaginary lines the run horizontally from East to West accross the earth
100
Divergent Boundary
Thin, dense crust found on the ocean floor
100
Focus
What is the point under the surface of the earth where plates fault.
100
Volcanic Ash
Slightly thicker than dust
200
Crust, Mantle, Outer Core, Inner Core
what are the Internal Zones of Earth
200
Cartography
What is the sudy of maps?
200
Island Arc
What is a deep feature that forms at a subdution zone.
200
tsunami
A massive wave created from an earthquake on the ocean floor.
200
Felsic lava which that is ejected in solid fragments of rock.
What is pryclastis material
300
Rotation and Revolution
Movement of the earth,________ is spinning and __________ is moving arounf the sun.
300
Longitude
What are the imaginary lines the run vertically North to Sout accross the Earth
300
Transform Boundary.
When two plates slide past one another.
300
Intensity
What is the amount of damage caused be an earthquake
300
Lapilli
What is BB or marble sized particles
400
Latitude and Longitude.
What is a grid system established to locate any single point on earth
400
discovery that the ocean floor is spreading apart.
What is Sea Floor Spreading?
400
small earthquakes causing readjustment of plates after a major earthquake.
What is aftershocks
400
A feature produced when an emtied magma chamber causes a volcano to collapse.
What is waht is the caldera
500
the earth is not a perfect sphere because it spins faster at the equator stretching out the earth arounf the equator
Why is the earth an oblate spheroid?
500
it demonstrates the relationship between distance in real-life and the map itself.
What is a Map Scale?
500
Continental Drift & Pangea.
What is Wegener's concept that continents once fit together as a supercontinent
500
The straightening of plates after plates under stress snap, the cause of the majority of seismic waves.
What is Elastic Rebound Theory?
500
A feature produced when the vent of a volcano is blown apart during eruption.
what is the crater
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