Plate Tectonics
What layer of the Earth are tectonic plates made of?
What process turns sand and soil into rock as it gets buried?
Sedimentation
What do we call the part of a cycle that moves nutrients from one place to another?
Process
What are the four kinds of waves in an earthquake?
Primary (p) waves
Secondary (s) waves
Raleigh Waves
Love Waves
These kinds of volcanoes have slow eruptions and gentle slopes with many layers.
Shield Volcanoes
What causes tectonic plates to move?
Convection currents in the mantle
What kind of fossils only show evidence of an organism, but don't show what it looked like?
Trace Fossil
What do we call the part of a cycle where materials are collected and stored?
Reservoir
What is the difference between the Focus and the Epicenter of an earthquake?
The focus is deep in the Earth where the collision of plates happens. The epicenter is the spot on the Earth's surface above the collision of tectonic plates.
These kinds of volcanoes erupt violently, removing tons of soil from the outer layers of the volcano in a pyroclastic flow.
Dome Volcanoes
What kind of plate boundary produces strong earthquakes?
Strike Slip / Transverse / Transform
What kind of fossil is made up of the actual body of an organism being turned into stone?
Form Fossil
Combustion, Decomposition, Respiration, and Photosynthesis are parts of which cycle?
Carbon Cycle
What is a mitigation technology? (What do they do, not what is an example)
Mitigation technologies reduce the harm done by an event.
This is a cluster of volcanoes, or an incredibly large volcano that can take many thousands of years to build up before exploding with global consequences.
Super Volcano
What kind of boundary tends to make volcanoes and trenches?
Convergent Boundary
What do we call the rock layer where dead plants and animals were turned into oil and natural gas?
Source Rock
Lightning, Fixation, Consumption, and Fertilizing are part of which cycle?
Nitrogen Cycle
These volcanoes have steep slopes made out of an snow-like ash.
Cinder Cone Volcanoes
What kind of boundary makes rifts or mid-ocean ridges?
What is the layer of the Earth companies extract oil and gas products from?
Reservoir Rock
This cycle from our lecture is the only one that does not go into the atmosphere. It is only found in rocks, organisms, soil, and water.
Phosphorous Cycle
There must be a liquid outer core and solid inner core based on how waves did or didn't move through the planet's center.
Volcanoes with an alternating pattern of violent eruptions and slow lava flows.
Composite Volcanoes