Plate Tectonics
The last known Super-Continent
What is Pangea?
The shaking and rolling that happens when breaks in the Earths crust occur
What is an earthquake?
How much salt is in water
What is salinity?
This generates most waves
What is wind?
Means "a day is a day"
What is Yom?
Where tectonic plates meet
What is a Boudary?
An opening in the oceanic crust where volcanic islands are created
What is a Hot Spot?
The waste that a lot of estuarine life thrives on
What is detritus?
The most important current in the oceans
What is the Gulf Stream?
How many days it took the Lord to create just the Earth
What is 3?
When two plates collide, and on plate sinks back into the mantle?
What is a Subduction Zone?
Shield, Composite, Cinder Cone
What are Types of Volcanoes?
This mix of salt and fresh water is called
What is Brackish?
If you are on the beach, you are standing on this
What is the continental shelf?
These are what build up and cause a volcano to blow
What are gas and pressure?
The Theory that all the continents were at one time, one land mass
What is Continental Drift Theory?
A fracture or system of fractures along which the Earth moves
What is a fault
NC has this type of estuary
What is bar-built?
The microscopic organism that most marine life feed on
What are Plankton?
This mollusk or bi-valve will take in water and spit it out clean
What is a filter feeder?
This explains the formation, movement, and subduction of Earths plates
What is the Theory of Plate Tectonics?
Earthquakes are caused by ___________ put on rock formations in the Earths crust
What is stress?
A u-shaped valley shaped from glaciers
What is a Fjord?
This lasts 24 hours and 50 minutes
What id a Lunar Day?
The cause of tides
What is the gravitational pull of the sun, moon, and Earth?