Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Plate Tectonics
Weathering/Erosion
Misc.
100
This is the rapid movement of rocks along a fault surface, like a rubber band snapping.
What is elastic rebound theory?
100
Magma flowing on the surface is called
What is lava?
100
Convergent, divergent, strike slip
What are the three types of plate boundaries
100
mechanical and chemical
What are the two types of weathering?
100
erosional, depositional, fold, and fault-block
What are the four types of mountains?
200
Used to measure earthquakes
What is Richter Scale?
200
This type of volcano is one that has erupted within historical times or shows signs that it could erupt at any time.
What is an active volcano?
200
The theory that the earth is made up of large plates that slip and slide on the surface.
What is plate tectonic theory?
200
This type of mechanical weathering is responsible for the movement of large quantities of sand across the desert
What is wind?
200
P waves and S waves
What are body waves?
300
Where a earthquake begins versus where we feel it on the surface? Give me the name of both in order by the question
What is focus and epicenter
300
Circum Pacific belt or Alpine Himalayan Belt
What is the location of most volcano's?
300
These occur when plates moves at their boundaries.
What is an earthquake or volcano?
300
Water collects and freezes and repeats until the rock breaks
What is frost wedging?
300
Type of mountain in which the youngest formation is in the center and the oldest is exposed on the outside rim.
What is a basin?
400
This instrument is used to detect and measure earthquakes
What is a seismograph?
400
Most volcano's are this type. Mt. St. Helens is one
What is a composite volcano?
400
One plate slides under another
What is subduction?
400
The movement of large masses of soil or rocks under the influence of gravity
What is mass wasting?
400
a low plain that forms where a river enters an ocean
What is the delta?
500
Each change of one on the Richter scale multiplies the energy released by what
What is 31.6?
500
The types of emission that come from volcano's You can be very specific or general
What is gaseous, liquids, and solids OR What is lahars, fumeroles, lava, ash, tephra, cinders ect.?
500
Oceanic Crust to Continental Crust and continental crust to continental crust
What are the two types of Convergent boundaries?
500
This type of erosion happens when large sheets of rock erode.
What is exfoliation?
500
form when large sections of the crust moved along cracks in the rock
What are fault block mountains?
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