How much percentage of people die in cars due to floods?
What is 66%
100
What are the four layers of the Earth?
What is crust, mantle, inner core, outer core
100
German scientist ____________ was the first one to talk about _____________.
What is Alfred Wegener, continental drift
100
The tool used to measure vibrations in the Earth
What is seismograph
100
The place where one plate slides underneath another plate is called the
What is subduction zone
200
The worst flood in World history was
What is 1931 Central China flood
200
What are the two types of crust and what are they made of?
What is continental crust -granite, oceanic crust -basalt
200
There are _____ major plates. They were once all together in one large continent called _________.
What is 7, Pangea
200
Name two ways that we study the Earth's structure.
What is measure different vibrations throughout the Earth, study materials that are pushed up through the crust, and how materials respond to heat and pressure.
200
The point at which the Earthquake breaks rock in the ground is called the _________.
What is the focus
300
How does urban flooding occur?
What is precipitation accumulates in a low lying area (city-like)
300
The circular movement of heat the mantle is called
What is convection currents
300
What are three types of plate boundaries and how do they move?
What is convergent, divergent, transform
300
The scale used to determine Earthquakes. What was the largest Earthquake?
What is Richter Scale, 1960 Chile magnitude 9.5
300
___________ ____________ _________ occurs at divergent plate boundaries in order for a Volcano to be made.
What is spreading center volcanism
400
What are the 5 states that were affected by the dust bowl.
What is Texas, Kansas, New Mexico, Colorado, and Oklahoma
400
The only liquid layer of the Earth is ______. It is made up of what two metals?
What is the outer core, iron and nickel
400
The underwater mountain range that is about 50,000 miles long is know as the
What is mid-ocean ridge
400
What plate boundary does an Earthquake happen on?
What is transform
400
What are the 3 different stages of a Volcano and explain each.
What is dormant, active, extinct
500
What are the two types of droughts? What is the difference between them?
What is
1. agricultural - not enough soil moisture, lack of crop growth.
2. meterological - not enough moisture in the air, causing bad weather conditions
500
The material that makes up the inner core
What is solid iron
500
The plates that make up the top layer of the Earth are known as the ____________.
What is lithosphere
500
What does a transform fault make? What is the biggest transform boundary in the U.S.?
What is a fault, San Andreas Fault in California
500
What are the 3 types of Volcanoes and which one is the most explosive?
What is cinder cone, composite, and shield . Composite