Plate Tectonics
All the continents use to be all one landmass called ?
Pangea
Someone who studies Volcanos
Volcanologist
where an earthquake begins underneath the earths surface
Focus
Rocks can be divided into 3 categories
Igneous
Sedimentary
Metamorphic
Oil, Gas,Peat,coal and all examples of
Fossil fuels
I can name 4 layers of the earth
Crust
Mantle
Outer core
Inner Core
The five parts of a volcano
Cone
Lava
Magma Chamber
Vent
Crater
Can be triggered if an earthquake happens under the sea
Tsunami
Igneous rocks can be found inside and outside the earths crust these are called what
Intrusive and extrusive
What are hydrocarbons
deposits of oil and natural gas
Plates float on this
Semi-Molten Magma in the earths mantle
The 3 different life cycles of a volcano
Active
Dormant
Extinct
Measures the magnitude (strength) of an earthquake
Moment Magnitude scale
Limestone is a permeable rock this means?
What can pass through it
i can list 5 examples of renewable energy
Hyrdo- electric
Solar
wind
tidal
biomass
geothermal
I can name the 3 types of plate boundaries
Separating
Colliding
Sliding
A positive and negative impact of volcanos
Tourism, carbon emission reductions, fertile soil
loss of earnings, travel chaos health concerns
One way to reduce earthquake damage
Planning
Predicting
educating
Construction
Marble can be found where and are what colour
white-Rathlin Island
Green- Connemara
Red- Cork
Black-Kilkenny
Name and advantage and disadvantage of one renewable energy resource
any one listed
I can name one example of plates that separate
North American - African
South American- African
Nazca - Pacific
Indo-Australian- Antarctic
North American- Eurasian
This region is home to 75% of the earths active volcanos and where 90% of earthquakes occur.
The Pacific Ring of Fire.
Can name the date of any earthquake we studied
Nepal 28 of April 2015
Chile 27th Feb 2010
What year did the Galmoy mines start operating
1997
what is crude oil and what country produces the most of it
crude oil is unrefined oil and Saudi Arabia