Small Scale Processes
Where are most of the volcanoes in the world found?
The Ring of Fire
what are the three types of plate bounderies?
divergent, convergent, and transform
Where do we live?
New England
What can seismometers detect?
Earthquakes
what two things commonly get mixed up?
Erosion and weathering
Landslides are masses of rock, earth, and/or debris (rubble/trash) that move down a slope due to what?
Gravity
How do Mountain formations form?
What rhymes with new bampfor?
New Hampshire
What can detect volcanoes?
What are the things called that is in a volcano before it erupts and after it erupts?
Magma and lava
what are Volcanic Eruptions?
A opening in the earth which gas, hot magma and ash can escape from.
What are the 2 types of Glacier Events?
Alpine and Ice Sheets.
What rhymes with new shedferd?
New Bedford
what can detect a tsunami?
Surface buoy
what are the 4 layers of earth? (in order)
Crust, mantle, outer layer, inner layer
What forces can cause a earthquakes?
Gravity and Friction are forces that cause them
What are the 4 types of Ocean Basin?
Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, Pacific
What rhymes with new pork?
New York
What are 2 types of weathering?
Mechanical weathering and chemical weathering
what is the stuff that is inside a volcano before it erupts and after?
Magma and lava
Which one of these are not true: Tsunamis are caused by underwater earthquakes, volcanic eruption, landslides, or tides.
Tsunamis are not caused by tides.
What is sometimes a large Scale Processes?
Erosion.
What rhymes with stew?
New
What is the 1 thing convection and subduction have in common?
The movement of tectonic plates.
What can Floods cause?
Hurricanes, broken levees or dams