What is weathered rock particles, water, air, and dead organic matter
100
What is the definition of an earthquake?
What is the release of energy caused by the stress placed on rocks
100
Created the Continental Drift Theory
Who is Alfred Wegener
100
A boundary where two tectonic plates come together, or collide, is called
What is a convergent boundary
100
According to the theory of plate tectonics, where would you predict the most likely place for the next earthquake or volcano?
What is along boundaries near colliding lithospheric plates
200
The materials that make up soil come from
What is both living organisms and non living materials.
200
Most earthquakes and volcanoes occur in areas of the Pacific Ocean called "The Ring of Fire". What is the main reason for this?
What is Lithosphere plate boundaries are found in that area.
200
Evidence of matching animal fossils from two separate continents _____________________ and _____________________
What is Africa and South America
200
The mid-ocean ridge is an example of a ____________________ boundary and ___________________ occurs here where new ocean floor is formed.
What is divergent boundary; sea-floor spreading
200
What is the definition of subduction and which direction does it move in?
What is The downward movement of the edge of a plate of the earth's crust into the mantle beneath another plate.
300
Name the different layers of soil
What is the O horizon, A horizon, B horizon, C horizon, and bedrock
300
The San Andreas Fault in Mexico and California is watched carefully for signs of an expected earthquake. Why do scientists think an earthquake might happen there?
What is The San Andreas is a known major fault where pressure for lateral movement has been building for years
300
The theory that all continents are fragments of Pangaea now drifting apart
What is the continental drift theory
300
Convection in the Earth's mantle results in what geological process?
What is plate tectonics
300
_________________ are a result from the build up of stress at a plate boundary.
What is earthquakes
400
Name one way soil may be affected.
What is Farming, Climate, Weathering
400
True or False. The time and location of most earthquakes can be predicted several days in advance.
What is false.
400
A long, undersea mountain chain that has a steep, narrow valley at its center, that forms as magma rises from the asthenosphere, and that creates new oceanic lithosphere (sea floor) as tectonic plates move apart.
What is Mid Ocean Ridge
400
What is a geographic example of a transform boundary.
What is The San Andreas Fault
400
The primary cause of crustal movement is called.
What is Convection
500
True or False. Burning coal to generate electricity in a power plant would most likely deplete a non-renewable natural resource.
What is true
500
Earthquakes may be caused by a break in the earth's surface also known as a fault. Name the three types of faults caused by earthquakes.
What is slip and strike, reverse, and normal.
500
Mountain formation may occur when
What is two continental plates collide
500
What conclusion can you draw about how plates are able to move away from each other to form a divergent boundary?
What is The younger rocks form in between the plates causing the plates to move outward
500
Fossils and sedimentary rocks form under specific conditions, so their presence in certain locations provides evidence for