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Plate Tectonics
Plate Tectonics 2
Weathering/Erosion
Earth-Moon-Sun
Landforms
100
Large pieces of lithosphere
What are tectonic plates?
100
Volcano with alternating quiet and violent eruptions
What is a composite volcano?
100
Gas in the atmosphere that causes chemical weathering
What is oxygen?
100
The time length of one earth rotation
What is 24 hours?
100
Water found underneath the earth's surface
What is groundwater?
200
Reason earthquakes plotted on a map make a line (curved or straight)
What is they occur along a plate boundary
200
Volcanic activity that can create islands in the ocean
What are hot spots?
200
Happens to rocks that are weathered
What is they crack, crumble or break into smaller pieces
200
Term for earth's movement around the sun
What is a revolution?
200
Landform limited to one state - Alaska
What is a glacier
300
New ocean floor is built at this type of boundary
What is a divergent boundary?
300
Zone created when oceanic plates or continental plates seperate
What is a rift zone?
300
The two main reasons cracks in rocks may grow over time
What is plant roots and ice wedging?
300
Direction of earth's axis during an equinox (Draw it)
What is neither pointing toward or away from sun
300
Formed and moved by wind on the beach
What is a sand dune?
400
Reason Florida does not have earthquakes
What is Florida is in the center of a plate or not along a plate boundary?
400
Main feature of the Ring of Fire
What are volcanoes?
400
Movement of sediment from one area to another
What is erosion?
400
Northern Hemisphere is experiencing summer (Draw it)
What is axis in the north is pointing toward the sun
400
Landform commonly found below sink holes
What are caves
500
Main Difference between oceanic crust and continental crust
What is continental crust is thicker than oceanic crust
500
Landform formed when molten material flows gently out of a fissure on Earth’s surface, then cools and hardens.
What is volcanic mountain (possibly a shield volcano)
500
Chemical bonds are broken causing breakage versus physical actions causing breakage
What is chemical vs. physical weathering
500
Reason tides are predictable
What is moon's path is predictable?
500
Forms where a river meets the sea (ocean)
What is a delta?