Geo Processes 1
What is continental drift?
Is Sea floor spreading Constructive or Destructive?
Constructive
What is constructive?
Hot liquid rock under Earth's surface.
What is magma?
A rock layer that allows groundwater to flow through it and collect.
What is an aquifer?
This natural hazard most likely occurs at transform plate boundaries.
What is an earthquake?
Sediments pressed and glued together over long periods of geological time are called this type of rock.
What is sedimentary?
Subduction occurs at this type of plate boundary.
What is convergent?
Rock that forms when magma or lava cools and solidifies.
What is igneous?
The process that describes how one type of rock becomes another.
What is the rock cycle?
New lithosphere is mostly created at this type of plate boundary.
What is divergent?
The transfer of thermal energy by the movement of matter at different temperature is called this.
What is convection?
Building structures that can withstand ground shaking would help minimize the destruction of this natural distaster.
What is an earthquake?
A deep, narrow depression on the sea floor.
What is a trench?
Where two or more of Earth's lithospheric plates meet.
What are plate boundaries?
One of the following is not a natural resource: Coal, plastic, water, wood.
What is plastic?
These are found in places where water can flow and collect in rock layers under Earth's surface.
What are aquifers?
What geological process creates River deltas
Deposition
The leftover radioactive material produced by reactors at nuclear power plants, nuclear medical treatments and nuclear research and technology facilities.
What is a model?
One of the following is a renewable resource: water, fossil fuels, copper.
This natural happens when rock, soil and Earth materials move down a slope.
What is a landslide?
The same kind of fossils are found in South America and Africa. The same kind of rock layers are found in North America, Europe and Africa. GPS measurements show that Earth's plates are moving at a rate of centimeters per year. These statements provide evidence of this theory.
What is the theory of plate tectonics?
A naturally occurring event that may negatively affect people and the environment.
What is a natural hazard?
A natural resource that cannot be replaced faster than it is used up by human populations.
What is a nonrenewable resource?