Earth's Structure
The outermost part of the Earth that we live on.
What is the crust?
The supercontinent in Earth's past.
What is Pangea?
The danger zone where most earthquakes and tsunamis happen.
What is the Pacific Rim? (Ring of Fire)
Climate graphs are judged by these two factors.
What is temperature and precipitation?
W.E.D. stands for this.
What is Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition?
The part of the Earth where convection currents occur
What is the mantle?
The "Father of Plate Tectonics", who came up with the theory of continental drift.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
Earthquakes are measured by this.
What is the Richter Scale?
The two types of climates.
What are maritime and continental climates?
The 4 types of erosion.
What is Wind, Water, Gravitational, and Ice?
The centre of the Earth is made up of these elements.
What is iron and nickel?
The 3 ways that mountains form.
What are fold mountains, block mountains, and hot spots?
A fracture or zone of fracture between two blocks of rock.
What are fault lines?
The reason why it is warmest near the equator.
What is the energy of the sun being focused into a smaller surface area?
The 3 types of deposition.
What is Wind, Water, and Ice?
The time period that dinosaurs lived in.
What is the Mesozoic Era?
The 3 types of plate tectonic movements.
What are convergent boundaries, divergent boundaries, and transform boundaries?
Volcanoes form because of this.
What is a subduction zone?
The oldest landform region in Canada.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
The difference between weathering and erosion.
What is weathering as the breaking down of rocks & minerals on earth's surface, vs. erosion MOVING rock material from one area to another.
The 5 layers of the atmosphere.
What is the Exosphere, Lonosphere, Mesosphere, Stratosphere, and Troposphere?
The process that created mid-ocean ridges.
What are divergent boundaries?
The three different times of earthquake boundaries.
What are convergent, divergent, and transform boundaries?
LOWERN stands for this.
What is Latitude, Ocean Currents, Winds & Air Masses, Elevation, Relief, and Near Water?
The type of rock that is subject to immense heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?