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Renewable Energy
Non-Renewable Energy
Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
100
Fuel made from biomass, or living things, usually crop plants such as corn
What is biofuel?
100
Solid fossil fuel that formed over millions of years from dead swamp plants
What is coal?
100
DAILY DOUBLE
What is lithosphere?
100
Angle of a fault relative to the horizontal surface of Earth
What is a dip?
100
Crack in the crust at a divergent plate boundary where magma may erupt
What is a fissure?
200
Transfer of energy through space or matter by electromagnetic waves
What is radiation?
200
Any chemical compound consisting only of hydrogen and carbon
What is a hydrocarbon?
200
Early 20th century hypothesis that the continents move over Earth’s surface
What is continental drift?
200
Bend in rocks caused by compression
What is a fold?
200
Hot ash, gas, and rock that race down a volcano’s slopes during an explosive eruption
What is a pyroclastic flow?
300
Energy that comes from the sun.
What is solar?
300
Liquid fossil fuel that formed over millions of years from dead sea organisms
What is oil?
300
One of the flat areas that make up most of the ocean floor
What is the abyssal plain?
300
Dip-slip fault in which the hanging wall pushes up relative to the footwall
What is a reverse fault?
300
Volcano that is not currently erupting but has erupted in recorded history and may erupt again
What is a dormant volcano?
400
A famous band called "Earth, ______ and Fire"
What is wind?
400
Gaseous fossil fuel that formed over millions of years from dead sea organisms and that consists mainly of the hydrocarbon methane (CH4)
What is natural gas?
400
Edge where two lithospheric plates come together
What is a convergent plate boundary?
400
A compression wave that is the fastest body wave.
What is a primary (P) wave?
400
Broad-based volcano with gently sloping sides composed almost entirely of lava flows
What is a shield volcano?
500
Energy that comes from the heat within the earth.
What is geothermal?
500
Energy released from the nucleus of an atom when it is changed into another atom by a nuclear reaction
What is nuclear energy?
500
Plume of hot material that rises through the mantle and can cause volcanoes
What is a hotspot?
500
Modern device that uses electronic motion detectors to measure and record seismic waves and other ground motions
What is a seismometer?
500
Place where hot water bubbles or flows continuously out of the ground
What is a hot spring?