Features of Earth
Vocabulary: Earth's solid, rocky surface
What is crust?
(Lithosphere is similar)
The name of the landmass that Alfred Wegener believed used to exist.
What is Pangaea?
Vocabulary: A break or crack along which tectonic plates can move.
What is a fault?
What is erosion?
Vocabulary: The remains of an organism preserved in Earth's crust.
What is a fossil?
Vocabulary: The part of Earth containing water.
What is the hydrosphere?
The splitting apart of an ancient supercontinent landmass is this theory.
What is continental drift?
Vocabulary: An instrument that detects, measures, and records the energy of an earthquake.
What is a seismograph?
Vocabulary: This natural process breaks down rock into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
If there are four rock layers laid down horizontally, this one is the oldest.
What is the bottom layer?
Vocabulary: The vertical lines that show the location east or west of the prime meridian.
What is longitude?
An oceanic plate subducting underneath a continental plate demonstrates this type of plate boundary.
What is convergent?
A normal fault is produced at this type of plate boundary.
What is a divergent boundary?
Vocabulary: The till that forms in front of or along the sides of a glacier.
What is a moraine?
Vocabulary: A rock's age in years.
The four layers of Earth in order from outside to inside.
What are the crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core?
The movement of tectonic plates beneath the ocean floor.
What is seafloor spreading?
(Half points: What is plate tectonics?)
This type of wave appears second on a seismograph chart.
What is an s-wave?
Vocabulary: The process where particles moved by erosion end up in a different location.
What is deposition?
This type of volcano forms slowly as lava flows to the surface from a vent and spreads out in all directions. It has gentle, sloping sides.
What is a shield volcano?
The border of WI-IL is around 42 degrees N latitude, 88 degrees W longitude. What state would be located at 46 degrees N latitude, 94 degrees W longitude?
What is Minnesota?
One of these doesn't belong: an ocean trench, a mountain, a volcano, a mid-ocean ridge. For the one that doesn't belong, which type of plate boundary does it belong with?
Mid-ocean ridge; What is a divergent boundary?
This location is a prominent spot of volcanoes and hotspots because it is a meeting point of many tectonic plates.
Where is the Pacific Ring of Fire?
This forms when carbon dioxide dissolves in rainwater and chemically reacts with limestone.
What is carbonic acid?
This type of force works like the blades of scissors and happens at transform boundaries.
What is a shearing force?