A volcano is a vent or fissure in Earth's surface through which magma and gases are expelled.
What is a volcano?
100
A biome is a large region characterized by a specific type of climate and certain types of plant and animal communities.
What is a biome?
100
An earthquake is a movement or trembling of the ground that is caused by a sudden release of energy when rocks along a fault move.
What is an earthquake?
100
A renewable resource is a natural resource that can be replaced at the same rate at which the resource is consumed.
What is a renewable resource?
100
A Non-renewable resource is a resource that forms at a rate that is much slower than the rate at which the resource is consumed.
What is a Non-Renewable Resource?
200
Pressure and heat on the magma and rocks cause volcanoes to erupt.
What causes volcanoes to erupt?
200
A tundra biome is the coldest of all biomes with low temperatures, poor nutrients, and short growing seasons.
What is a Tundra biome?
200
The epicenter is the point above the Earth's surface that is directly above the focus.
What is an epicenter?
200
One example of a renewable resource is paper.
What is an example of one renewable resource?
200
One example of a non-renewable resource is diamond.
What is an example of one non-renewable resource?
300
Most volcanoes are located near the Ring of Fire (In the Pacific ocean), and near tectonic plates.
Where are most volcanoes located?
300
The Tropical Rainforest biome holds over 50% (percent) of the world's animal species.
Which type of biome holds over 50% (percent) of the world's animal species?
300
A divergent boundary happens when 2 (two) tectonic plates pull away from each other.
What is a divergent boundary?
300
Diamond is not a renewable resource.
Is diamond a renewable resource?
300
Paper is not a non-renewable resource.
Is paper a non-renewable resource?
400
Magma is a hot fluid made of melted rocks below or within the earth's crust.
What is Magma?
400
A Desert biome is an ecosystem that receives ridiculously low levels of rainfall every year and covers about 20% of the Earth. ~ridiculously as in seriously, really, LOW amounts like you would not believe. :)
What is a Desert Biome?
400
The focus is the point in the earth where the earthquake rupture or fault movement actually occurred.
What is the focus?
400
Recycling is the process of converting waste materials into reusable objects to prevent waste of potentially useful materials.
What is recycling?
400
We can conserve Non-renewable resources by recycling, reusing, and reducing.
What can we do to conserve Non-renewable resources?