When there is movement of rocks along a fault, this can cause:
What is an earthquake?
100
This is formed by the wind.
What is a dune?
100
When water freezes and then thaws again within a rock, it can cause
What is weathering?
100
What do we call the substance that flows from a volcano?
What is lava?
200
Earthquakes most commonly take place near:
What is faults?
200
As weathering eats away pockets of limestone underground, what are likely to form?
What are caves?
200
The process of planting new crops over the old ones without plowing the land.
What is no-till planting?
200
Scientists can measure the size of an earthquake using the ________ scale.
What is Richter?
200
Which deep geographical feature is formed by water erosion?
What is a canyon?
300
This is an instrument used to measure an earthquake.
What is a seismograph?
300
This process could cause rivers to get wider and beaches to get smaller.
What is erosion?
300
Wyatt is riding his bike and suddenly he observes rock and soil sliding down a hill near his house. He is probably witnessing:
What is a landslide caused by gravity?
300
The earthquake waves that cause the most damage are
What are surface waves?
300
As one tectonic plate is pushed under another at a subduction zone, magma is released to the surface forming
What is a volcano?
400
A seismological study finds that there may be large increase in the number of earthquakes occurring in a certain area. What action should be taken to control the possible damage?
What is start building the buildings stronger.
400
At the boundary of the Pacific and North American tectonic plates, a convergent boundary, what surface features are present?
What are volcanoes and faults?
400
Volcanoes are often formed over convergent boundaries that have
What are subduction zones?
400
Who can predict "exactly' when an earthquake will happen?
What is noone?
400
A huge ocean wave caused by an earthquake in the ocean floor is called:
What is a tsunami?
500
Which surface feature forms from the deposition of sand and silt particles?
What is a delta?
500
Seismographs create a record that records the earth's movement. Who studies these records?
What is a seismologist?
500
This process in the water cycle forms an invisible gas called water vapor.
What is evaporation?
500
Materials that are moved or deposited by water, glaciers or wind is called