Earthquakes/Volcanoes
Most earthquakes /volcanoes occur on this part of oceans and continents.
What is in lines or bands around edges of oceans and continents.
What causes large rocks to crack?
What is the freezing and thawing of water in the cracks.
This percentage of Earth's water is in oceans.
What is 97%
Rocks and dirt.
What is geosphere.
What condition would cause flash flooding?
What is a great amount of rainfall in a short time.
What is saturated ground causing water run-offs into rivers and ravines.
We look at these to help locate different land and water features of Earth.
What are maps.
As the slope of a hill increases, what happens to the rate of erosion?
What is it increases.
This frozen freshwater makes up 1% of Earth's water.
What are glaciers.
Any living thing lives here.
What is biosphere.
A buoy in the ocean is an example of a warning system for what kind of disaster?
What is tsunami.
These move and shift to cause earthquakes.
What are tectonic plates.
What 2 effects are caused by huge waves hitting rocks on a beach.
What is weathering and erosion
Only a tiny fraction of Earth's available water is here.
What is rivers, lakes, streams.
The waters of the Earth.
What is hydrosphere.
This scale measures the intensity of an earthquake.
What is Richter scale.
The area around the world the most volcanoes and earthquakes are located.
What is the "ring of fire".
Why does land burned by forest fires often have landslides?
What is there is no vegetation to hold the soil.
These hold the run-off from the mountains.
What are reservoirs.
Way up there.
What is atmosphere.
A hurricane involves these 2 spheres.
What is hydrosphere, atmosphere.
The plates pull apart to form this. Utah's goes from Tremonton down to Nephi.
What is a fault line.
Delicate Arch in southern Utah was formed by _________ eroding _____________.
What is wind, rock.
Where rainfall soaks in.
What is groundwater.
If the Great Salt Lake changes weather patterns with lake effect, what 2 spheres interact?
What is hydrosphere and atmosphere.
This back country natural disaster killed 37 people in the U.S. in 2020-21
What is avalanche.