Mariana Trench
Approximately how deep is the Mariana Trench?
11000 meters
11km deep
The Ring of Fire
The San Andreas Fault on the coast of California has what kind of locked movement?
In the Atlantic Ocean is what sunken Shipwreck
Titanic
3800 meters sunk below
In Hawaii, the Active volcano at the summit we looked at is called what?
Kilauea Volcano
Orogeny means "Mountain Building". It occurs when two tectonic plates move how ?.....................
Converge
Mid Ocean Ridge Subduction Zones can release earth contents underwater, name two things that result ?
S_ _ F _ _ _ _ S_ _ _ _ _ing
Hydro_ _ _ _ _ _ _ V_ _ _ s
Seafloor spreading
Hydrothermal vents
Why is tectonic Plate activity Unique to Earth?
Because we have water
70 % water makes us a "waterworld"
What do you notice about the plate boundary of Japan ? Or the geography of Japan?
It is an archipelago that is situated on 4 tectonic plates
It is on a tectonic plate boundary also
memory recall :
Cenote means 'hole of water' in the ground. There are alot of cenotes / caves of water in Mexico. This special feature of the land was possibly caused by what?
meteorite/ asteroid hit from collision billions of years ago
When having a look at mount Fuji in Japan, it is a dormant volcano. What type of tectonic plate movement happened to create this?
What are the two types of tectonic plates?
Oceanic and Lithospheric / (continental plates)
Magma can be released from tectonic plate movement and subduction zones, depending on the location.
Magma can expel onto seafloor, or it can come out of volcanos. Where does the magma come from?
Earth's inner core
Nations like Hawaii have to monitor their volcano activity because they are located in hotspots.
Why is this important
so that Disasters and destruction caused by volcanic activity can be managed in an emergency