Rocky Road
This is an area surrounding the pacific ocean where plate boundaries converge or diverge and create volcanic activity.
What is The Ring Of Fire?
The amount of time that typically spans over millions of years
What is geological time?
This occurs when rainfall is so great that the earth material becomes liquified and moves downhill due to gravity.
What is a landslide?
This occurs when the more dense oceanic lithospheric plate sinks under the less dense continental plate. The sinking plate is destroyed and metamorphic rock is created deep underground.
What is subduction or a subduction zone?
What are the layers of the Earth?
This type of rock is created when it is buried and compressed.
What is sedimentary rock?
This object is said to be 4.6 billion years old.
What is the Earth?
This underground layer of material that allows for water to be stored between its spaces. This layer is typically made of sand.
What is an aquifer?
This plate boundary creates new lithosphere.
What is a divergent plate boundary?
This layer of Earth is made up of the crust and the upper mantle.
What is the lithosphere?
This type of rock is created under extreme heat and pressure.
What is a metamorphic rock?
What is an earthquake?
This natural resource is good to store nuclear waste near.
What is a granite outcrop?
This plate boundary is where two plates slide past each other.
What is transform?
This layer of Earth is where convection currents exist.
What is the mantle?
Magma that erupts from the surface of the Earth forms different types of rock. In class, we studied these two types of Igneous rocks.
What is basalt and pumice?
This is the idea that the continents, once joined together to form a large land mass, have moved over time.
DAILY DOUBLE!
What is Continental Drift?
This theory states that the lithosphere is made of massive pieces that slide around interacting with each other at their boundaries making new land forms over geological time and earthquakes and volcanoes quickly.
What is the Theory of Plate Tectonics?
Mountains form in these two areas when plates interact at plate boundaries.
What are mid ocean ridges at divergent plate boundaries and mountain and volcanoes at convergent plate boundaries?
These are created when the solid mantle heats up and move up close to the lithospheric plates making a current that moves the plates from each other and towards others.
DAILY DOUBLE!
What are convection currents?
These three types of volcanoes are where igneous rock are formed.
What are shield, cone and composite?
These three non renewable resources take geological time to create.
What are petroleum, granite, and copper?
These five points need to be considered when determining where to store nuclear waste.
What are
1) Human Population Density
2) Location of Operating Nuclear Reactors
3) Location of Aquifers
4) Natural Disasters caused by volcanoes and earthquakes
5) Location of Natural Resources
The theory of plate tectonics is accepted as fact due to this evidence.
What are specific layers of Earth and fossilized remains of the same types of plants and animals found on continents oceans apart is evidence of this theory?
This layer of Earth ranges in temperature from 2800-6000 degrees Celsius.
What is the Outer Core?