Earthquakes and Volcanoes
The place where Earth's plates meet
What is plate boundaries?
The type of weathering that breaks rocks into smaller and smaller pieces
What is mechanical weathering?
A resource that cannot be easily replaced
What is a nonrenewable resource?
An instrument that uses lenses to magnify objects hundreds or thousands of times
What is a microscope?
Animals with backbones
What are vertebrates?
What is vog?
The movement of weathered material from one location to the next
What is erosion?
The most abundant metal in the earth's crust
What is aluminum?
The person who first discovered cells
Who is Robert Hooke?
The group of vertebrates that are warm-blooded and have feathers
What are birds?
The point on the surface of the earth directly above the focus of an earthquake
What is the epicenter?
The primary force in erosion
What is gravity?
A factory that separates crude oil into different products
What is a refinery?
The process plants use to converts sunlight into sugar
What is photosynthesis?
The group that includes sharks and stingrays
What are cartilage fish?
An avalanche of red-hot dust and gases produced by volcanoes
What is pyroclastic flow?
The type of mass movement that occurs when slabs of rock break off along cracks and faults
What is a rockslide?
The term that refers to all of Earth's water
What is hydrosphere?
the organelle that makes proteins for the cell
What are ribosomes?
The phylum that includes oysters, snails, and nudibranchs
What are mollusks?
The most powerful volcanic eruption
What is Plinian eruption?
The type of weathering when rocks rub against each other causing the rocks to have smooth, round edges
what is abrasion?
The energy produced as water flows from reservoirs and turns turbines
What is hydroelectric energy?
The kingdom that algae belong to
What is Protista?
The class of arthropods that have 3 body segments and 3 pairs of legs