earthquakes
volcanoes
plate tectonics
rocks and minerals
misc
100
Why do earthquakes often cause damaging fires?
Earthquake vibrations can break gas lines, water lines, and electrical lines.
100
A caldera is a ____.
What is a large depression in a volcano?
100
What type of boundary occurs where two plates move together, causing one plate to descend into the mantle beneath the other plate?
What is a convergent boundary?
100
What type of sedimentary rock is formed from weathered particles of rocks and minerals?
What is clastic sedimentary rock?
100
What hypothesis states that the continents were once joined to form a single supercontinent?
What is Continental Drift?
200
What type of seismic waves travel faster than S waves?
What are P waves?
200
The volcanic landform that is formed when the more resistant volcanic pipe remains after most of the cone has been eroded is called a ____.
What is a volcanic neck?
200
What is the driving force for the movement of the lithospheric plates?
What is unequal distribution of heat within Earth?
200
A rock that forms when magma hardens beneath Earth’s surface is called an ____.
What is intrusive igneous rock?
200
Most of the information about Earth’s interior was obtained by studying ____.
What are earthquake waves?
300
The distance between a seismic station and the earthquake epicenter is determined from the ____.
What is the arrival time of P and S waves?
300
Which type of intrusive feature forms when magma is injected into fractures cutting across preexisting rock layers?
What is a dike?
300
Deep ocean trenches are associated with ____.
What are subduction zones?
300
What is a naturally occurring, solid mass of mineral or mineral-like matter?
What is a rock?
300
The sun’s energy drives which of the following processes?
What is weather and ocean circulation?
400
The broad, slightly dome-shaped volcanoes of Hawaii are ____.
What are shield volcanoes?
400
The most violent volcanic eruptions are associated with what type of volcano?
What is a composite cone?
400
Which type of landform develops at plate boundaries where one oceanic plate descends beneath another?
What is a volcanic island arc?
400
Where is the energy source found that drives the processes that form igneous and metamorphic rocks?
What is the Earth's interior?
400
The supercontinent in the continental drift hypothesis was called ____.
What is Pangaea?
500
The adjustments of materials that follow a major earthquake often generate smaller earthquakes called ____.
What are aftershocks?
500
A lens-shaped intrusive igneous mass close to Earth’s surface is called a ____.
What is a laccolith?
500
What forms when one oceanic plate is forced beneath another plate?
What is a subduction zone?
500
Minerals form from bodies of water due to the process of ____.
What is precipitation?
500
The distance, measured in degrees, north and south of the equator is referred to as ____.
What is latitude?
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