Weathering and erosion
Earthquakes
Miscellaneous
Plate tectonics
Faults
100
What causes a rock to have smooth, rounded edges?
What is being near flowing water or a river.
100
What is it called when the land is being stretched during an earthquake?
What is tension
100
Which layer of the Earth is the hottest?
What is inner core
100
What type of boundary is formed when two plates separate?
What is divergent boundary
100
In a normal fault, where does the hanging wall move relative to the foot wall?
What is downward
200
What causes ripple marks and mud cracks?
What is erosion
200
Are s waves slower or faster than p waves?
What is slower
200
Describe a convergent boundary between an oceanic and continental plate. (Include the word subduction in your answer.)
What is they collide and the oceanic plates subducts, melts back into magma, and comes up as chains of volcanoes.
200
What was one of Alfred Wegener's problems in explaining his Theory of Continental Drift?
What is he lacked the knowledge of the underlying mechanisms that drive it. (He did not know HOW they were moving, but he knew they moved somehow.)
200
In a reverse fault, where does the hanging wall move relative to the foot wall?
What is upward
300
What substance is the most important part of chemical weathering?
What is water
300
The beginning point of an earthquake below ground
What is the focus
300
Why are sea levels expected to rise?
What is Carbon Dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels.
300
Tectonic plates consist of what two types of crust?
What is continental and oceanic
300
What is a fault?
What is a break in the lithosphere
400
Why does erosion not occur on the moon?
What is there is no wind or rain
400
the waves of energy from earthquakes that travel through the Earth are called __________
What are seismic waves
400
Determining how the seafloor changes over time has given scientists information about the _____________
What is the formation rate of the ocean crust
400
Why do volcanoes and ridges form when the seafloor spreads?
What is as the plates pull apart, magma moves to the surface, building ridges
400
What is the lithosphere?
What is the crust and upper part of the mantle.
500
What is the difference in weathering, erosion, and deposition?
What is Weathering is the break down of rock into smaller sediments. Erosion is moving those sediments. Deposition is where the sediments end up.
500
Which seismic waves cause the most damage?
What are surface waves.
500
Which type of plate boundary forms mid ocean ridges?
What is divergent
500
What provides the best evidence for the theory that faults and volcanoes are results of tectonic plate interactions?
What is faults and volcanoes are often found at plate boundaries
500
What is the asthenosphere?
What is the lower part of the mantle, below the lithosphere
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