vocabulary
The San Andreas ____________ is a landform in California that results from a transform plate boundary and repeated earthquakes
fault
The theory that Earth's surface is made up of moving, rigid plates.
Plate Tectonics
What is the name for the area of the world (around the Pacific Ocean) that is the most active for volcanoes and earthquakes?
Ring of Fire
Name for the process where water inside the cracks in rocks freezes and melts repeatedly, breaking apart the rock.
Ice Wedging
States that Earth's surface is broken into rigid plates.
Plate tectonics
Tidal waves can form after an ____________
What evidence do scientist use to support the continental drift (and plate tectonics)? For example, the fact that the continents fit together like puzzle pieces is one piece of evidence. Name ONE other piece of evidence.
Fossil evidence
Rock Evidence
Glacial striations
subduction
How are erosion and deposition related?
erosion carries sediment and sediment is put down in a new location through deposition
Hazards that we experience along plate boundaries (Name at least 2)
earthquakes, volcanoes, tidal waves
Volcanoes can form an convergent boundaries and over hot _____________
How does Earth's mantle move tectonic plates? Hint: Name the process has been compared to a conveyor belt.
Convection Currents
Why are there no mountains in the middle of the United states
Erosion
this process breaks rock into sediment
weathering
Mountains form at what type of plate boundary
Volcanoes occur along what type of boundary?
convergent
True or Falsse. Earthquakes can result from both transform AND, less frequently, at convergent boundaries?
True
Name the type of weathering process we modeled with the "making sand lab" (sugar cubes lab)
transform boundaries
What is the name of the process that breaks down rock?
weathering
What kind of feature forms on the ocean floor when plates move apart?
mid-ocean ridge
How could a volcanic eruption cause temperatures to change on Earth?
volcanic materials that are blown into the atmosphere could block sunlight, causing Earth's surface temperature to decrease.
Name the process where materials are dropped in a new place, forming things like river deltas ans beaches
Deposition
Alfred _______________ first proposed Continental Drift, which led to the Theory of Plate Tectonics