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What happens when rocks at the focus snap?
What is 'they jump into new positions and release some of the stored potential energy'.
A major geological event that occurs when plates shift suddenly and released stored energy is called.....
Where does most earthquake damage occur?
What are areas where buildings sit in loose soil?
Fast geoscience processes such as tsunamis, earthquakes, landslides can cause....
What are catastrophic events?
What is the study of fossils and how they were formed which helps determine how Earth has changed with time?
What is Paleontology?
What causes slow changes to earth?
What are wind, water and ice?
What geologic process causes rock layers to tilt?
What are plate tectonics?
Any natural process that happens to Earth's surface, such as weathering, erosion, or plate tectonics.
What is Geoscience Process?
Where do most volcanoes occur?
What is along boundaries of tectonic plates?
Which work together to change Earth's surface?
A) weathering
B) erosion
C) deposition
D) all of the above
What are the four systems of Earth that are always interacting?
What are Lithosphere, Hydrosphere, Atmosphere and Biosphere?
How are volcanoes categorized?
What is extinct, inactive and active?
What word means 'relating to the whole world'?
What is global?
The nature of a volcanic eruption depends on the type of what?
What is lava?
What causes both earthquakes and volcanoes to occur?
What is the constant changing of the Earth's surface?
A group of interacting, interrelated, or interdependent elements forming a complex whole.
What is a system?
Describing something so small that it can be seen only with a microscope.
What is Microscopic?