Plate Tectonics
Bathymetry
Earth's Layers
Sediments
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the type of plate boundary that pushes two pieces of crust together --> <--
What is convergent plate boundary
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the feature that is closest to the shore, where you swim when you go to the beach

What is continental shelf

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the outer most layer of Earth
What is the crust
100
This type of sediment is composed of quartz, and is eroded or weathered from land
What is lithogenous sediment
100

a volcano that is not active is called what?

What is dormant volcano

200
the type of plate boundary that pulls two pieces of crust apart <-- -->
What is divergent plate boundary
200
the feature that forms ridges that resemble an underwater mountain range
What is mid-ocean ridges
200
this layer is composed of two layers, the inner and outer.
What is the core?
200
this sediment is primarily found at hydrothermal vents
What is hydrogenous sediments
200

the primary difference between a seamount and a volcano/island

What is one is above the water, one is below

300
densest type of crust, composed of basalt
What is oceanic crust
300
feature that an underwater mountain, has a flat top
What is guyot
300
this layer is composed of the crust and the upper part of the mantle
What is lithosphere?
300
examples of this sediment are tektites and micrometeorites
What is cosmogenous sediments
300
the concept that the present is the key to the past, coined by geologist James Hutton
What is uniformitarianism
400
3 ways that you can form a volcano
What are hotspots, rifting, and subduction zone
400

the bottom, extremely flat area of the ocean

What is abyssal plain?

400
the only layer that is completely liquid
What is the outer core?
400
these are the three ways that scientists study sediments
What are grain size, distribution, and origins
400
the study of how ocean, atmosphere, and land interactions have produced changes in ocean chemistry, circulation, biology, and climate
What is paleoceanography
500
when an oceanic plate and a continental plate meet at a convergent boundary, one plate goes underneath the other plate. the plate that goes underneath is called the what?
What is the subducting plate?
500

area where you would expect to find very old rocks, and the area where you would expect to find very young rocks

What is deep ocean floor, what is near the shore.

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in what layer do earthquakes occur?
What is the crust/tectonic plates
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this sediment type can be used to determine the relative age of rocks by examining the fossil evidence in them

What is biogenous sediment

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1) The islands of Hawaii are known as what kind of volcanic feature?

2) Are all of Hawaii's volcanoes active?

1) What is hot spot volcanoes

2) No

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