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Plate tectonics

100

Name the 3 plate boundaries

Constructive, destructive, passive

200

Name the layers of the earth, hottest to coldest.

Inner core, outer core, mantle, crust

300

When the continents moved apart from Pangaea, what was this called?

Continental drift

400

Who came up with the theory of plate tectonics?

Alfred Wegener

500

Name 6 of the main plates

North American, pacific, Antarctic, South American, Eurasian, Indian, Nazca, Australian

Volcanoes/earthquakes

100

What plate boundary can volcanoes not occur at?

Transform or passive

200

What is the difference in epicentre and focus?

Epicentre is directly above focus (strongest), focus is where earthquake starts

300

This landform goes directly through Iceland..

Mid-Atlantic ridge

400

Name 5 key features of a volcano.

Volcanic cone (layers of ash/lava), crater, vent, magma chamber, lava/magma, pipe, ash 

500

What country and year tsunami did we study?

Japan 2011

Fold mountains/rocks

100

What plate boundary do fold mountains occur? What do they fold into .. upfolds and downfolds?

Destructive, anticlines and synclines

200

What is permeable rock.. give an example of one?

Allows water to pass through - limestone

300

Name the 3 periods of folding.

Caledonian, Armorican, Alpine.

400

Give an example of metamorphic, sedimentary and igneous rock.

Marble or quartz, limestone or sandstone, basalt or granite

500

Name where you can find all of the below in Ireland

basalt, limestone, granite

Giants causeway, burren, Wicklow mountains

Weathering/mass movement

100

What is the slowest type of mass movement?

Soil creep

200

What type of chemical weathering did we learn about? Give an example of somewhere that it occured.

Carbonation. The Burren

300

What type of mass movement is volcanic ash involved in?

Lahar

400

Give 3 ways you would notice soil creep has happened.

Bent poles or tree trunks, collapsed walls, terracetes

500

Name the 4 factors that influence mass movement?

Gradient, water content, vegetation, human activity

OS maps

100

What letter is missing from the ‘National Grid’?

I

200

What are the 3 essentials you need before starting an OS map sketch?

North arrow, title, frame

300

How do you find a six figure grid reference? How do you write it?

LEN.. subzone letter, eastings ➡️, northings ⬆️ example. S354 654

400

What are contour lines, what do they show?

Lines of equal height that show steepness of a slope

500

Draw an example sketch map in 3 mins on the board. Include post office, garda station, a regional road, any water and an antiquity

See board and timer