Plate Tectonics
Type of boundary where plates slide past each other
What is a Transform boundary
the 3 types of rocks
What are metamorphic, igneous, and sedimentary?
Kepler's First Law says
The orbits of the planets are ellipses, with the Sun at one focus of the ellipse.
area around the pacific ocean with extreme volcanic activity
What is the Ring of Fire?
point in the earth that an earthquake starts
What is the focus?
Type of boundary that comes together
What is a Convergent Boundary.
Occurs when heat and pressure are applied to rocks.
What is metamorphic rock?
What theory marks the beginning of the universe?
Big Bang Theory
What is the difference between magma and lava?
Magma – molten rock with Earth
Lava – molten rock on Earth’s surface
point directly above the focus on the surface.
What is the epicenter?
Type of boundary where plates move away from each other.
What is Divergent boundary.
Occurs when rocks are melted and then allowed to cool and harden.
What is igneous rock?
What is defined as "circular movement of an object about a point in space"?
Rotation
Fragments ejected during eruptions
What is pyroclastic material?
recording of seismic waves recorded by a seismograph
What is a seismogram.
Type of boundary where mountains are formed.
What is convergent boundary?
Occurs after weathering and erosion make sediments then the sediments are compacted and cemented together.
What are sedimentary rocks?
wobble in the Earth's axis
What is nutation?
Mudflow that occurs when volcanic debris becomes saturated with water and rapidly moves down steep volcanic slopes
What is Lahar?
what are P waves?
They push (compress) and pull (expand) rocks in the direction the wave travels
Also known as compression waves
Can travel through solid, liquid, and gas
Fastest waves
Type of boundary where volcanoes, mid ocean ridges, and sea floor spreading occurs.
What is divergent boundaries?
What is the difference between erosion and weathering?
Weathering is the breaking apart of rock into smaller particles and erosion is the movement of those particles from one place to another.
the center of mass of two or more bodies that orbit each other
What is barycenter?
List the gasses found in volcanic eruptions
(Extra toss of the ping pong ball if you can also correctly list the percents of each)
70% water vapor
15% carbon dioxide
5% nitrogen
5% sulfur
what is a strike-slip fault
Faults in which the movement is horizontal and parallel to the trend