Plate Tectonics & Drift
This theory suggests that the continents were once joined together in a large landmass and have moved over time.
What is Continental Drift?
This type of plate boundary is where two plates move toward each other.
What is a Convergent Boundary?
Igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks are classified based on this specific factor.
What is how they formed?
Unlike coal or water, this man-made material is NOT considered a natural resource.
What is Plastic?
This is the specific term for a rock layer that prevents the flow of water, often contrasted with an aquifer.
What is an Aquitard?
This theory describes the Earth's surface as being made of lithospheric plates that move over time.
What is Plate Tectonics?
Earthquakes occur most frequently along these specific geographic features.
What are Plate Boundaries?
These rocks are formed when sediments are pressed and glued together over long periods of time.
What are Sedimentary Rocks?
This vital liquid is considered a renewable resource, unlike fossil fuels or copper.
What is Water?
The movement of the lithospheric plates and their interactions at plate boundaries leads to the pattern of ...
What are earthquakes and volcanoes on Earth’s surface?
These two continents share identical fossil remains, serving as major evidence for plate movement.
What are South America and Africa?
This event is the most likely occurrence at a transform plate boundary.
What is an Earthquake?
Most metamorphic rocks form in this specific location.
What is deep underground?
These underground rock layers allow water to flow and collect beneath the Earth's surface.
What are Aquifers?
A sudden release of energy in Earth’s interior, which can cause shaking at the surface.
What is an earthquake?
Modern evidence of plate movement is tracked using this satellite-based technology, showing movement in cm per year.
What is GPS?
Heavy rainfall, earthquakes, or previous occurrences in the same area all increase the risk of this downslope hazard.
What is a Landslide?
This geological process provides the necessary heat and pressure to change sedimentary rock into metamorphic rock.
What is Subduction?
These three technologies—GPS, computer models, and these vibration-measuring devices—help us learn about Earth.
What are Seismometers?
The leftover radioactive material produced by reactors at nuclear power plants, nuclear medical treatments, and nuclear research and technology facilities.
What is nuclear waste?
This process in the mantle, defined as the transfer of thermal energy by the movement of matter, drives plate motion.
What is Convection?
New lithosphere is primarily created at this specific type of plate boundary.
What is a Divergent Boundary?
This statement is true regarding the "life cycle" of the Earth's crust: old lithosphere is destroyed while this happens.
What is new lithosphere is formed?
At a mid-ocean ridge, these three things are produced: igneous rock, mountain ranges, and this.
What is New Lithosphere?
This specific, high-heat process occurs within the Earth's mantle and acts as the "conveyor belt" that adds new material to the bottom of oceanic plates while moving the continents above.
What is Convection?