Earthquakes
The rupture of sudden movements along the fault.
What is an Earthquake?
The boundary(ies) along which a volcano can form.
What is a convergent and divergent boundary?
What is erosion?
The moving of weathered material/sediment from one place to another.
What is weathering?
The process of breaking down rocks into smaller pieces
A surface along where the crust moves.
What is a fault?
Name the four stages of volcanoes.
What are forming, active, dormant, and extinct.
Name the three types of boundaries along with the forces.
What are divergent, convergent, and transform?
Describe how erosion affects the landscape.
As rocks and/or sand move to other places, they create new landforms, such as canyons, sand dunes, etc.
There are two types of weathering processes. What are they?
What is chemical and physical weathering?
The point on the Earth's surface vertically above the focus in the crust, which is where an earthquake originated.
What is the epicenter?
The cycle of heating, rising, cooling, and sinking of magma inside Earth that causes plate tectonics to move.
What is convection?
True or False: The breaking down of rocks and movement by wind, water, and/or ice mixing with sand to create sediment is the description of the erosion deposition cycle.
True
The process of breaking down rock into small pieces without changing the composition.
What is physical weathering?
An instrument that detects, records and measures vibrations from earthquakes.
What is a seismograph/seismometer?
Describe the formation of a volcano. (generally)
What is a weakness in the Earth's crust that lets hot molten rock (magma) repeatedly come through forming a mountain of gas, ash, and lava?
The settlement of sediment (pieces of rock). The place where sediments land during erosion.
What is deposition?
The process of breaking down rocks caused by combination of rain and chemicals in the atmosphere that come down as acid rain.
What is chemical weathering?
This measurement would be considered a great magnitude for an earthquake.
What is 7.0 or higher on the moment magnitude scale.
The region where a majority of active volcanoes can be found. (Approximately 450 to be exact)
What is the Pacific Ring of Fire?
Name the two halves of the super-continent Pangaea and say the continents in each.
What are Laurasia (North America and Eurasia), Gondwana (Africa, South America, Australia, India, and Antarctica)?
Name the three agents (types) of erosion and deposition and give an example for each.
What are erosion and deposition by water (rivers) , ice (glaciers) and wind?
Give an example of something that can mechanically weather a rock
What is...plant roots grow into cracks and wedge rocks apart, burrowing animals, water freezing into cracks in water causing crack to expand and break apart (ice wedging).