Aquifers
what is area underground that can store a usable amount of water
what are aquifers
Single identifiable and consistent source of pollution into water
what is point source water pollution
The name of the supercontinent
what is pangea
This causes buildings to fall and ground to crumble.
what is an earthquake or what are seismic waves?
The theory that the plates are moving constantly.
What is Continental Drift?
one use of an aquifer
what is drinking water
the effect of fertilizer on a riverr
what are dead fish, algae, overgrowth of plants
How continents are moved
what are convection currents in the mantle
Molten rock under the surface.
What is magma?
The boundary responsible for earthquakes in California.
What is a transform boundary?
Ways to protect our aquifers
What is conservation, fixing leaks, and/or legislation
a source of pollution including fertilizer, and animal waste.
what is farming
Superposition
what is the law stating that the oldest rocks are at the bottom
The cause of earthquakes
what is the friction breaking between tectonic plates
What is making plates move (not magma).
What are convection currents of the mantle?
Define percolation
What is the downward movement of water to an aquifer.
Pollution type that moves across the surface into a larger body of water
what is runoff
How do fossils prove Pangea?
What are common fossils across locations they couldn't exist on today.
Benefits of living near a volcano.
what are good soil, tourism, minerals and geothermal energy.
What divergent boundaries make.
What is a mid-ocean ridge?
the consequence of the excessive removal of groundwater from the aquifer
what is a sinkhole
what are fish death, undrinkable water.
the main source of human pollution.
agriculture
The scientist who proposed continental drift and pangea?
Who is Alfred Wegner?
Location on the surface over where the fault line broke
what is the epicenter
What a convergent boundary between 2 oceanic plates creates?
What is a volcanic island arc?