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Volcanoes
Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
Natural Resources
All of the Above
100
What is the Ring of Fire
What is a string of Volcanoes that wrap around the Pacific Ocean
100
What is is called when 2 tectonic plates spread apart
What is a Divergent Boundary
100
What type of stress occurs when the 2 sides of the fault are pulled apart?
What is Tension Stress
100
What is 1 Renewable Resource
What is sunlight, water, wind, plants
100
What is something that is created at all 3 Tectonic Plate Boundaries
What is Earthquakes
200
What is the difference between lava and magma
Magma is underground and lava is above ground
200
What is the name of the ancient supercontinent
What is Pangaea
200
What is the point on Earth's surface directly above where an earthquake occurs
What is the epicenter
200
What is Deforestation?
When people cut down forests for farms or ranches
200
This is the point underground on a fault where an earthquake starts.
What is the focus
300
What is 1 example of a hot spot in the U.S.A.
What is Hawaii or Yellowstone
300
What are the 3 things that are created at a Convergent Boundary
What is Mountains, Volcanoes, and Earthquakes
300
What do we use to measure how strong an earthquake is?
What is seismograph or Richter Scale
300
What is 1 example of a Nonrenewable Resource?
What is Oil, Gasoline, Gold, Coal
300
This is a type of volcano that looks just like a mountain and it exposed out lava, ash, or pyroclastic flow
What is a composite volcano
400
What do you call a volcano that has not erupted for a very long time, but scientist think it will erupt sometime soon
What is a dormant volcano
400
The San Andreas Fault is an example what type of plate boundary?
What is Transform Boundary
400
What type of stress occurs when 2 plates come together?
What is Compression Stress
400
What is Desrtification
When farmers use the soil to much and take out all of the nutrients and it turns into a desert.
400
A divergent boundary creates earthquakes, rift valleys, and _______________
What is a mid-ocean ridge
500
This is a type of volcano that is very wide and not very tall, usually made from hot spots.
What is Shield Volcano
500
What were the 2 reasons why Alfred Wegener knew that the continents were once together?
What is Fossils and they fit like puzzle pieces
500
What is 1 of the 2 places that earthquakes happen?
What is a fault or plate boundary
500
What is another name of pollution that is in the air?
What is emissions
500
What type of fault is created from Shearing stress?
What is a strike-slip fault