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Wearing Away
Meet me at the Boundary
It's what's on the inside that counts
Shake, Rattle, and Roll
Grab Bag
100
Define erosion.
What is the movement of sediments from one place to another?
100
The three kinds of tectonic plate boundaries.
What is transform boundary, divergent boundary, and convergent boundary?
100
The densest layer of Earth.
What is the inner core?
100
Earthquakes and volcanoes commonly occur here.
What is along plate boundaries.
100
This type of map shows the shape and elevation of an area.
What is a topographic map?
200
The four kinds of erosion.
What is wind, water, ice, and gravity?
200
Boundary that does not create or destroy any landforms.
What is a transform boundary?
200
The crust and upper mantle.
What is the lithosphere composed of?
200
The reason New England does not usually have earthquakes.
What is we are not near a tectonic plate boundary?
200
Shows that an area is steep on a map.
What is when the contour lines are close together?
300
The two types of weathering.
What are chemical and physical weathering?
300
Type of boundary that created Mt. Everest.
What is a convergent boundary: continent to continent?
300
The difference between the outer and inner core.
What is the outer core is liquid and the inner core is solid?
300
Volcanoes are commonly formed as a result of this.
What is a subduction zone? or What is one plate subducting under another?
300
The scale used to detect and measure earthquakes.
What is the Richter Scale?
400
The type of rock that contains calcite and is weathered by acid rain.
What is limestone?
400
The boundary that destroys oceanic crust.
What is a convergent boundary: ocean to continent?
400
This layer of Earth contains convection currents.
What is the mantle (or asthenosphere)?
400
The point on the surface of Earth where an earthquake begins.
What is epicenter?
400
The heat from the core causes this to occur in the mantle.
What is a convection current?
500
A land feature created by deposition.
What is a delta? (Or dunes)
500
The process occurring at a divergent boundary that creates new sea floor.
What is sea floor spreading?
500
Causes the center of Earth to be solid, dense, and extremely hot.
What is pressure?
500
Layer of Earth that causes earthquakes.
What is the lithosphere?
500
The magnitude of the biggest earthquake on record in 1960 in Chile.
What is a 9.5?