Chapter 11
Chapter 11 continued
Chapter 12
Chapter 15
Chapter 15 continued
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When the force on rocks is great enough, they break, producing vibrations called?
What is an earthquake
100
What are the faults that are caused by tensional forces?
What is a normal fault
100
What is the steep walled depression around a volcanoes vent?
What is a crater
100
What is the transfer of heat by the flow of heated material?
What is convection
100
What layer contains the ozone layer
What is the stratosphere
200
Once the elastic limit of rocks is passed, they break and move along surfaces called what?
What is a fault.
200
What is the fault that is caused by compressional forces?
What is a reverse fault
200
What is one factor that will determine whether a volcanic eruption will be quiet or explosive?
What is the amount of water vapor and silica
200
What is the souce of all energy in our atmosphere?
What is the sun
200
What are the steady winds between the equator and 30 degree latitude
What are the trade winds
300
what is the force that squeezed rock together?
What is compression
300
What is the fault that is caused by shear forces
What is strike-slip fault
300
Where do volcanoes occur? Divergent plates, convergent plates and what?
What are hot spots
300
What layer blends into outer space?
What is the exosphere
300
What is a windless zone at the equator
What are doldrums
400
what is the forces that pulls rocks apart?
What is tension
400
What is the most destructive seismic wave?
What is a surface wave
400
What is coming out of the surface of a volcano?
What is ash, debris and gases.
400
What is the effect caused by Earth's rotation?
What is the Coriolis Effect
400
What are electrically charged particles are found primarily in what layer?
What is the ionosphere
500
what is the force that causes plates to move side to side?
What is shear
500
What is the first wave to reach the seismograph
What is a primary wave
500
What is a broad shaped volcano called?
What is a shield volcano
500
what is the trasnfer of energy that occurs when molecules bump into each other
What is conduction
500
What are the winds responsible for the winds in North America?
What are prevailing westerlies.
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