Earth Structure
Approximately, how long ago was the earth formed?
What is 4.6 billion years ago?
What are the three main boundaries?
What is Convergent, Transform, Divergent?
What season is the earth closest to the sun?(Northern Hemisphere)
What is winter?
List four factors that determines how soil develops.
What is Parent material, Topography, Living organisms, and climate?
Magma(melted rock) is produced by
What is a Active Volcano?
What are the three sections earth is divided into? (Hint: not troposphere, mesosphere, etc)
What is the biosphere, hydrosphere, and internal structure?
What is the result of transform boundaries sliding past each other?
What is earthquakes?
How many degrees is the tilt of the Earth?
What are the four main soil components?
Clay, Gravel, loam, sand, silt
How do landslides and mudslides occur? (multiple answers)
Landslides occur when masses of rock move down a slope. Mudslides are a faster form of Landslides. Landslides are caused by turbulence in the stability of a slope.
The different series of rock layers in the ground. Each layer represent a "slice" in time.
What is Strata?
What is the name of the scale that measures Earthquakes?
What is the Richter Scale?
What degree is the equator located on?
What is 0 degrees?
The rock and the minerals the soil derives from
What is Parent material?
What is it called when a lot of water is displaced due to earthquakes which in turn, causes massive waves?
What is a Tsunami?
The two different types of crusts that float on top of the mantle
What is the Oceanic and continental crust?
Difference between a divergent plate and Convergent plate.
What is the different direction they move?
In what season does the sun rise higher in the horizon in the Northern Hemisphere?
What is summer?
The horizon with the most organic material.(Humus)
What is Horizon A
What are the three main categories of rock?
What is Igneous, Metamorphic, and Sedimentary?
Where is the mantle located?
What is between the crust and the core?
Name the major fault in California that was caused by a transform boundary plate
What is the San Andres Fault?
The imaginary line that separates light from the darkness and day from the night
What is the circle of illumination?
The three main forms of erosion
Process that makes water that evaporate quickly leaving behind dissolved salts in topsoil.
What is Salinization?