Volcanoes
This is the place most volcanoes occur.
What is along plate boundaries?
The point on Earth's surface directly above an earthquake's starting point.
What is the epicenter?
A part of the Earth’s atmosphere that is important because it absorbs harmful radiation
What is the ozone?
Name one factor that determines climate.
What is (name one):
1. altitude
2. temperature & precipitation
3. latitude
4. distance from a body of water
A volcanic eruption with a VEI of 6 is how much more powerful than an eruption with a VEI of 1.
What is 10,000 times more powerful?
A giant ocean wave generated by an earthquake deep under the ocean.
What is a tsunami?
The layer between the stratosphere and thermosphere
What is the mesosphere?
Name one natural cause of climate change.
What is (name one):
1. Earth's orbit
2. Earth's tilt
3. volcanic activity
4. solar activity
Mass removal of trees by humans.
What is deforestation?
The bowl-shaped area around the vent of a volcano.
What is the crater?
The 2 main gases that make up 99% of the air in Earth's atmosphere.
What are Nitrogen (78%) and Oxygen (21%)?
The amount of carbon that a person contributes to the atmosphere.
What is carbon footprint?
The phenomena that allows Earth to be warm enough to support life.
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
Volcanoes that are very tall with steep sides and are very explosive and dangerous.
What are stratovolcanoes?
The type of earthquake wave that is the fastest moving; arrives at an earthquake detection station first.
What is a P-Wave?
Through the process of photosynthesis, plants remove what gas from our atmosphere?
What is CO2 (Carbon Dioxide)?
A localized climate that differs from the main regional climate.
What is a microclimate?
Natural gas, coal, and oil are also called this.
What are fossil fuels?
This location can be used by scientists to determine plate movement. Hawaii is an example.
What is a Hot Spot?
The San Andreas Fault, a result of shear stress and has horizontal movement, is this type of fault.
What is a strike-slip fault?
The two layers of the atmosphere in which temperature decreases with height.
What are the troposphere and the mesosphere?
The warming of surface waters in the oceans that causes short-term climate change.
What is El Nino?
The gas that humans and animals emit when they exhale (breathe out).
What is CO2 (Carbon Dioxide)?