Volcanoes
Continental Plates
Water on Earth
Mountains
Earth Quakes
100
This comes out of strato-volcanoes
What is lava
100
The plates drift on this material
What is magma
100
The steepness of a stream is also called (this)
What is Grade
100
The Rickter Scale
What is a measurement system used to tell how big an earthquake is.
200
The type of volcanoes that are most common around Flagstaff
What are cinder cones
200
This is the number of plate boundaries.
What is three
200
A natural underground reserve of water
What is aquifer
200
The tallest mountain on earth is this high...
What is Mt. Everest
200
The place where continental plates slip and move past one another is called this...
What is fault
300
Shield, Cinder and Composite.....
What are three main types of volcanoes
300
Fossil evidence for (this) includes several fossil organisms found on different landmasses.
What is continental drift.
300
A (blank) forms whenever the water table intersects the ground surface.
What is a spring.
300
A type of stress that causes Mountains to rise from the surrounding surface.
What is compression
300
An under water landslide triggered by an earth quake may trigger one one of these...
What is a Tsunami
400
the man who proposed the theory of continental drift
Who is Alfred Wagner
400
When an oceanic plate is subducted beneath a continental plate it is called
What is convergent boundary
400
Streams generally erode their channels lifting loose particles by .......
What is abrading, grinding and dissolving material
400
As one goes up in altituide one changes .....
What is climate zone
400
To locate the epicenter of an earth quake scientist measure the time between these two waves.
What are P and S waves
500
A climatic change that a large volcanic eruption can have
What is global cooling
500
The number of major plates
What is 7
500
The volume of a river is measured in this way..
What is cubic feet per second
500
The rocky mountains are the result of ..
What is ocean-continental convergence.
500
Each step in the Richter scale increases the power of the earth quake by this much..
What is tenfold
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