Extreme Natural Events (16)
A sudden and violent shaking of the ground.
What is an earthquake?
Anything that has mass and takes up space.
What is matter?
Energy that is produced from heat within the Earth.
What is geothermal energy?
A group of living organisms that share similar charachteristics and can reproduce.
What is a species?
Magma that is on the Earth's surface after a volcanic eruption.
What is lava
As a Tsunami approaches a coastline, the height of the Tsunami does this.
What is remains the same?
A substance that cannot be broken down into different substances by mechanical means.
Wind energy is an indirect form of this source of energy.
What is a solar power?
The border between the Earth's mantle and the crust.
What is the Moho or Mohorovicic discontinuity.
A period of abnormally low rainfall leading to a shortage of water for crop, animals, and humans.
What is drought?
A huge, fast moving mudslide cause by snow and ice melting from volcanic heat.
What is a lahar?
A naturally occurring, inorganic substance with a definite chemical composition and an orderly structure.
What is a mineral?
These structures convert energy from wind into electricity.
What are wind turbines?
Scientists who study the relationship between living things and their environments.
What are ecologists?
Study of the relationship of living things with each other and with their environments.
What is Ecology?
As lava cools, it turns into this.
What is igneous (volcanic) rock
When some light can pass through a mineral.
What is translucent?
Geothermal plants are located close to these cracks in the earth's crust.
Tectonic plate fault lines
Biomes that are primarily water including marine and freshwater.
What are aquatic biomes?
Our most reliable source of energy that can be easily transported and safely stored.
What are fossil fuels?
The earth's hard outer crust.
What is the lithosphere?
Toughness- How a mineral resists breaking.
This process separates hydrogen and oxygen atoms in water.
What is electrolysis?
Grassland biomes are also known as one of these.
What are either prairies, steppes, pampas, or savannahs.
Process by which high winds blow the loose topsoil.