Plate Tectonics
Boundaries and Faults
Earthquakes/Volcanoes
Soil
Vocabulary
100
Alfred Wegener proposed this idea.
What is Continental Drift
100
Formed by transform boundaries
What are earthquakes?
100
Fastest moving body wave that cannot pass through solids but passes through the liquid outer core
What are primary waves?
100
The loose covering of broken rock particles and decaying organic matter overlying the bedrock of Earth's surface.
What is soil?
100
Magma when it reaches the surface.
What is lava?
200
Earth's continents were once joined together as a super landmass called Pangaea
What is the Theory of Plate Tectonics
200
Plates that move toward each other, away from each other and past each other are called
What are convergent, divergent and transform boundaries?
200
Slowest moving wave that is to blame for the majority of the damage caused by earthquakes.
What is an L wave?
200
A soil profile is
What is the vertical sequence of soil layers?
200
The internal resistance to flow
What is viscosity?
300
Fossils, rock formation and climate
What are the 3 forms of evidence proving Wegener's theory?
300
Where one block of land slips downward relative to the other block of land.
What are normal faults?
300
Largest layer of the Earth composed of very hot, dense rock?
What is the mantle?
300
The 3 major soil horizons.
What is A, B, and C.
300
Rapidly moving volcanic material
What is pyroclastic flow?
400
Plates that move towards each other, away from each other and sliding past each other.
What are convergent boundaries, divergent boundaries and transform boundaries?
400
Where the blocks of land scrape along side-by side
What are strike-slip faults?
400
The three types of volcanoes.
What are composite, shield and cinder-cone volcanoes?
400
Graph used to determine what type a soil's texture.
What is the soil triangle?
400
Waves that move through the inside of Earth.
What are body waves?
500
Theory proposed by Henry Hess explaining continental drift
What is seafloor spreading?
500
Places where ocean crust meets continental crust
What is oceanic-continental?
500
Described by hot magma rising to the top, cooling and falling back to the bottom where it is warmed again and the cycle is repeated.
What is a convection current?
500
have high temperatures and heavy rainfall but have poor growth conditions due to leaching.
What is Tropical Soil?
500
The point on Earth's surface directly above the focus.
What is an epicenter?
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