Internal GP 1
Violent shaking of the Earth’s surface
Earthquake
Mixture of melted rocks, solid fragments, dissolved gasses.
Magma
Alterations that rocks experience on the surface
Weathering
Movement of fragments from weathering
Erosion
Lands with high thermal oscillation and low levels of precipitation and vegetation
Deserts
Manifestations of the Earth’s internal energy
Earthquakes, volcanoes
The _________ of an earthquake is the external point where the effects are bigger.
Epicentre
Movement of those materials to another area
Transport
Deposit of materials in layers called strata
Sedimentation
Sporadic bodies of water with a fixed course
Torrents
Active volcanic areas that caused islands to emerge in Spain.
Canary Islands.
(Seismic Risk) Measures the damage caused in the area.
Intensity
Limit between the sea and the continent
Coasts
Enormous bodies of ice that slide due to gravity
Layers of rock or sediment with groundwater
Aquifers
Type of magma: violent explosions, narrow volcanic cones.
Viscous magma
(Earthquake and volcanic belts) Boundary where two plates collide
Convergent boundaries
Analyses the influence of climate on the relief
Climatic geomorphology
Studies the influence of the rock structure on the relief
Structural geomorphology
(Glacial shaping) Weathering through...
Gelifraction
Materials ejected in the volcano that is made of solid materials like bombs, lapilli, ash
Pyroclastic materials
Give the formula of volcanic gasses ejected from volcanoes.
CO2, H2O
Studies the characteristic landforms of each rock type
Lithological geomorphology
Human landscapes (Human beings as a geological agent)
Urbanisation, Deforestation, Mining
Area where a glacier melt
Ablation zone