Weathering + Erosion
According to the theory of plate tectonics, this layer is divided into plates (very specific answer)
What is the lithosphere
The scale used to take into account the magnitude of an earthquake.
What is the Richter Scale.
What is the greatest factor that has an impact in mass movement happening?
What is gravity
What has to happen first in order to turn an igneous rock into a sedimentary rock?
What is erosion and weathering
How many whole layers of the Earth are there?
What is 3
State the 3 particles of soil from largest to smallest.
What is sand, silt, clay.
List one example of chemical weathering.
What is oxidation or acid rain.
Draw the direction the plate tectonics move that are responsible for creating a mid-ocean ridge. (Hint, you need two arrows drawn)
Await answer on the board, basically <-- -->
State the difference between magma and lava. You need to make sure I can tell which one you are describing on your board.
Lava - Above the Earth
Magma - Below the Earth
Why does Cali have more earthquakes than North Carolina?
What is Cali is located along a transform boundary.
This is the type of mass movement that occurs when several rocks fall from a flat incline.
What is landslide/rockslide.
This is the type of rock that is made from heat and pressure but not enough heat to cause it to melt.
Why is the most inner part of the core solid even though it is the hottest layer?
What is pressure.
What is mineral matter.
This describes the type of mechanical weathering where water freezes, expands, and causes a rock to break apart.
What is frost wedging.
What is an epicenter.
This is the type of mass movement that can move massive amounts of the land all at once, noticeably very fast, and usually contains mass amounts of snow.
What is an avalanche.
Which rock is used to discover and study fossils?
What is sedimentary rock
What do we call the molten rock that is most commonly found within the mantle?
What is magma.
What is decayed matter (plant and/or animal)
Which of the following locations would you expect WIND to cause the most erosion?
Swamps, forests, grasslands, deserts
What is deserts
What is the name of the area where slab pulling occurs? You should have two words written.
What is subduction zone
The Hawaiin islands are created through this phenomenon.
What is hotspots.
This type of wave pulls rocks at a right angle as it travels underground.
What is an S-wave
This is the type of mass movement that occurs at a sloped area and it usually causes terraces to form where the soil fell.
What is a slump.
What is the main way to tell extrusive igneous and intrusive igneous rocks from each other?
The distribution of Earth's heat through the movement of convection currents occurs in which major layer of the Earth?
What is the mantle.
Of the 3 types of soil particles, which one would water have the hardest time passing through?
What is clay
This is the type of mechanical weathering when igneous rock gets expelled to the surface due to a pressure release.
What is unloading.
The primary cause of convection currents in the Earth's mantle is believed to be this.
What is the uneven distribution of heat from Earth's core
Name one factor that can contribute to how quiet or disruptive a volcano is.
What is magma temperature, magma composition, amount of dissolved gasses.
Describe why shallow earthquakes are more dangerous.
What is there is less distance for the energy to travel with a shallow earthquake, leading us to feel the raw effects of it sooner than one that is deeper in the Earth.
State one way you could tell a creep was occurring.
What are vertical structures become tilted and trees/vegetation become bent.
What is an easy way to figure out if you are looking at a metamorphic rock without looking at its mineral composition?
What is check to see if it is foliated.
List the percentages of the 4 major parts of soil:
- Mineral Matter
- Humus
- Air
- Water
What is
- Mineral Matter 45%
- Humus 5%
- Air 25%
- Water 25%
Chemical weathering occurs most rapidly in this climate.
What is moist and warm
When oceanic crust and continental crust collide, what is TWO major formations that can be created that we can SEE?
What is a trench and continental volcanic arcs
What is the name of the location where we find most of the volcanic activity on earth? It runs along where the pacific plate meets many other plates.
What is the ring of fire.
What is seismology
Which is slower: mudflow or earthflow?
What is the main difference between the different types of rocks.
What is how they are formed.
Describe the difference in density between the two crust types - Be specific.
What is oceanic crust is more dense, while continental crust is less dense.