Plate Tectonics
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Mountains and Soil
Surface Water
100
A hypothesis that Earth's continents move on Earth's surface. The continents moved from one location to another over time
What is Continental Drift?
100
A volcano is formed at an oceanic plate and a _?_ plate subduction boundary
What is Continental Plate?
100
The point on the Earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake
What is the epicenter?
100
Where mountain building takes place
What is Active Continental Margins?
100
A stream that runs into another stream or river
What is a Tributary?
200
A deep sea trench is found at this type of boundary
What is a Subduction boundary?
200
A volcanic island is formed at an oceanic plate and _?_ plate subduction boundary
What is an Oceanic Plate?
200
An instruments that detects and record waves produced by earthquakes
What is a Seismograph?
200
May include hydrolysis, acid rain, and oxidation
What is Chemical Weathering?
200
The distance that water travels in a given amount of time
What is its Velocity?
300
The three main types of plate boundaries
What are the divergent, convergent, and transform boundaries?
300
These islands have formed as the Pacific plate moved northwest over a hot spot
What are the Hawaiian Islands?
300
These waves that travel from the focus of an earthquake through Earth
What are Body Waves?
300
These mountains formed by the closing of an ocean between India and Tibet. The oceanic crust disappeared into a subduction zone.
What are the Himalayas?
300
The measure of the total amount of sediment a stream can carry
What is the Capacity?
400
Molten rock forces its way upward through cracks, or rifts, along the valley. This molten rock cools, hardening into new oceanic crust.
What is sea-floor spreading?
400
This type of magma is formed at rifts and oceanic hot spots
What is Basaltic Magma?
400
Aftershocks, Fire, Tsunamis
What can happen after an earthquake?
400
Soil of the A-horizon that is generally gray to black in color because of organic material from decayed plant and animal materials
What is Topsoil?
400
Deep oval or circular basins formed when water in a river develops small whirlpools
What are Potholes?
500
The location where earthquakes and volcanoes occur
What is the plate boundaries?
500
The largest known volcano is the solar system
What is Olympus Mons?
500
Areas where the fault has not moved over a period of time
What is Seismic gap?
500
Occurs when the soil gradually becomes so lacking or depleted in nutrients that it can no longer grow usable crop
What is Soil Depletion?
500
A river transports, or carries, its load in these three ways
What is in solution, in suspension, and in its bed load?
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