Natural Disasters
Can humans prevent natural disasters
What is no?
The study of the makeup of the earth and the processes that change and shape it is called
Earth's largest and thickest layer that consists of very hot, very dense rock
What is the mantle?
The theory of plate tectonics explains
What is Earth's tectonic plates have been slowly moving and interacting for billions of years?
When the magma that erupts out of the mantle hits Earth's surface it is called
What is lava?
Tsunamis form when
What is earthquakes occur in the oceanic crust, causing the seafloor to shift?
The three types of geology are
What is archeology, ecology, and geography?
The solid, made of very hot metal, may be nearly as hot as the sun's surface, innermost layer
What is the inner core?
Who is Alfred Wegener?
What is they are both active volcanoes?
Geysers, volcanoes, and hot spring all have what in common
What is they form along plate boundaries and above hotspots?
How do we measure earthquakes
What is a seismograph?
Thin, rocky, outermost layer, two types: Oceanic and continental
What is the crust?
The three main types of interactions we see with tectonic plates
What is convergent (colliding), divergent (moving apart), and transform (sliding sideways past)?
What is describing how gods and goddesses cause volcano-related occurrences
A volcano that has not erupted for at least 10,000 years and is not likely to erupt again
What is extinct?
What scale do we use determine the magnitude of an earthquake
What is the Richter scale?
Liquid layer, made up of very hot metal
Explain one piece of evidence Alfred Wegener provided to back up his hypothesis of continental drift
What is matching rock layers, forms of plant and animal fossils of the same age found around different continent shores, suggesting that these shores were once joined, the continents seem to fit together like a puzzle?
Hawaii currently lies over...
What is a hotspot?
What is Earthquakes being with huge blocks of rock moving along faults?
The most famous geyser's and what sate park is it located in
What is Old Faithful and Yellow Stone National Park?
The very hot substance that flows through the mantle
What is magma?
What causes tectonic plates to move
What are convection currents in the mantle?
What is a subduction zone and what do they cause
What is that place where one tectonic plate is sliding beneath another tectonic plate. Deep ocean trenches and and many volcanoes form here?