Plate Tectonics and the Earth
These are the layers of the Earth
Core (inner and outer), mantle, crust
This type of crust is thinner and more dense
Volcanoes and Earthquakes are most common here
What are plate boundaries
The long term weather pattern for a given area
What is climate
This is the process by which hot and cool circulates in the atmosphere
What is convection
The outer core of the Earth is liquid because there is less of this
What is pressure?
The most well known of the super continents
What is Pangaea
These are 3 precursor events that aid scientists in predicting volcanic eruptions
What are release of gases, small earthquakes, and change in shape of volcanoes
What are Polar, Temperate and Tropical
This model shows that shows how convection currents cause global wind patterns
What is the Hadley Convection Cell Model
This is the name we give to two plates spreading apart.
What is divergent
Plates move around on the Earth because of this heating process.
What is convection
These are two faults located within the Unite States
What are the San Andreas Fault and the New Madrid Fault
Sun's rays are more intense here
What is the equator?
Surface winds curve because of this
What is the Coriolis Effect?
This is the name we give to two plate sliding past each other and two plates moving into each other respectively
What is transform and divergent
This protects us from solar winds and exists because much of the Earth is made of iron and nickel
What is the magnetic field
A dense, destructive mass of very hot ash, lava fragments, and gases ejected explosively from a volcano and typically flowing downslope at great speed
What is pyroclastic flow
What is latitude
Surface winds that blow in fairly constant, predictable patterns around Earth
What are global winds
When the Earths crust is taken back into the mantle through plate tectonics and recycled back into the Earth.
What is subduction.
This scientist proposed the theory of Plate Tectonics
Who is Alfred Wegener
These are also known as strato-volcanoes
What are composite volcanoes
These are graphs used to show a regions particular climate.
What are climographs
This air falls back to the Earth because it is more dense.
What is cold air?