Plate Tectonics
Volcanoes
Mountain Building and Earthquakes
Water
Grab Bag
100
Continental drift was discarded in favor of this modern theory.
What is plate tectonics?
100
This plate boundary has the most volcanoes associated with it.
What is a convergent boundary?
100
Found in the ground below the epicenter of an earthquake.
What is the focus?
100
Adding this to your yard will slow down runoff after a storm.
What is vegetation?
200
The movement of materials from hot to cold, causing tectonic plates to move.
What is convection?
200
These pieces of rock and ash are ejected from a volcano during an eruption.
What is tephra?
200
The process that forms mountain ranges.
What is orogeny?
200
The main purpose of this feature is to filter water.
What is a wetland?
200
This is the most viscous of the following: vegetable oil, water, honey, rubber cement
What is honey?
300
These plate boundaries are primarily found on the ocean floor.
What is a divergent plate boundary?
300
Adding this element to magma will increase its viscosity.
What is silicon?
300
Scale that describes the damage done during an earthquake.
What is the Modified Mercalli Scale?
300
As a stream gets older it begins to do this.
What is meander?
300
This describes the ability of a rock, or any material, to allow liquids to pass through it.
What is permeability?
400
This mountain range helps support the idea that North American and Europe were once connected.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
400
A chain of islands that runs east and west is found in the Atlantic Ocean. If the youngest island is found at the eastern most spot, what direction is the plat moving?
What is to the west?
400
Type of deformation that occurs when rocks go back to their original shape after undergoing extreme pressure.
What is elastic deformation?
400
Water enters the atmosphere through these two methods.
What is transpiration and evaporation?
400
Device that measures the movement of the Earth's crust.
What is a seismometer?
500
Oceanic plates always subduct under continental plates because of this.
What is a higher density?
500
Mauna Loa in Hawaii is an example of this volcano type.
What is a shield volcano?
500
How much time passed between the appearance of the first p wave and the first surface wave?
What is 7?
500
These are formed when the water table is at the surface, and is then discharged from the ground.
What is a spring.
500
Permeable rock layer that holds groundwater.
What is an aquifer?