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 a VEI of 1?
What is 100,000 times more powerful?
A giant ocean wave generated by an earthquake at a convergent boundary on the seafloor.
What is a tsunami?
The layer between the stratosphere and thermosphere
What is the mesosphere?
The phenomena that causes the Earth to be warm enough to support life.
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
Used for energy and are the remains of ancient organisms. Natural gas, coal, and oil are examples.
What are fossil fuels?
The bowl shaped area around the vent of a volcano.
What is a crater?
The 2 main gases that make up 99% of the air in Earth's atmosphere.
What are Nitrogen (78%) and Oxygen (21%)?
A localized climate that differs from the main regional climate.
What is a microclimate?
The total amount of greenhouse gases that are produced by your actions.
What is carbon footprint?
A very tall type of volcano with steep sides; has very explosive and dangerous eruptions.
What is a stratovolcano?
The fastest-moving type of seismic wave; arrives first at an earthquake detection station.
What is a P-Wave?
Through photosynthesis, plants remove this gas from the atmosphere.
What is CO2 (Carbon Dioxide)?
Name one NATURAL cause of climate change.
What is (name one)?
1. Volcanoes
2. Solar activity
3. Earth's Orbit
4. Earth's Tilt
The gas that humans and animals exhale (breathe out) into the atmosphere.
What is CO2 (Carbon Dioxide)?
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 where temperature decreases with height.
What are the troposphere and the mesosphere?
Gases that trap and absorb heat in the atmosphere.
What are greenhouse gases/trace gases?
The warming of the surface waters in the ocean that causes natural short-term climate change.
What is El Nino?