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Vocabulary
Volcanoes
Con/Des Forces
Earthquakes/Boundary
Miscellaneous
100
What is a Plate?
A section of Earth's crust and mantle that fits together with other sections like puzzle pieces.
100
What are volcanoes made of?
Lava, ash, or other materials from eruptions.
100
Floods.
What is Constructive & Destructive Force?
100
What is where energy is released during an earthquake?
What is the focus?
100
How many major plates are there?
10.
200
What is a fault?
A crack in Earth's crust.
200
What can a hot spot do?Explain.
It can melt a hole through the crust as the magma rises to the surface.
200
Eathquakes.
What is Destructive Force?
200
Explain what happens in a reverse fault.
The rock layers above the fault move up.
200
What layer of Earth contains liquid iron?
Outer Core.
300
What is weathering?
The process of wearing away rocks by natural means.
300
What are the types of volcanoes?
Composite/Stratocone, Cinder Cone, and Shield.
300
A flow of a river.
What is Constructive & Destructive Force?
300
What are the three types of boundaries formed where plates meet?
What is Divergent, Convergent, and Transform?
300
What is a jetty?Is it good or bad?
A wall like structure that sticks out into the ocean that is both good AND bad...but mostly bad.
400
What is erosion?
The process of moving sediment by wind, moving water, or ice.
400
What are the characteristics of a shield volcano?
Wide and fairly steep slopes, alternating layers of lava,etc.
400
Hurricane.
What is Destructive Force?
400
This thing records movements in Earth's crust.
What is a seismograph?
400
True or False:In a normal fault, the rock layers above the fault move up.
False. (If you did Earthquakes/Boundary for 200 you problably got this right because of process of elimination)
500
What is topagraphy?
Surface landforms of an area.
500
Give examples of a Composite/Stratocone volcano, Cinder Cone volcano, and a Shield volcano.
Mt. St. Helens, Paricutin in Mexico, The Hawaiian Islands, etc.
500
A delta.
What is constructive force?
500
True or False:it is possible for mountains to form in the middle of a plate.Explain your answer.
True, continental collision and/or rifting.
500
Illustrate how the Hawaiian Islands were formed.
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