Earth's Natural Resources
They can only be used once and are not replaced quickly by nature.
What are nonrenewable resources?
It is composed of solid iron and nickel.
What is the inner core?
Where new crust is made as the plates move apart.
What is a divergent plate boundary?
What is a shield volcano?
It is where two sections of earth's crust meet making the pressure build up.
What is the fault line?
Animals, plants, water, and wind are examples.
What are renewable resources?
It is composed of liquid, mostly made of iron and nickel.
What is the outer core?
Where crust is destroyed as one plate dives under another after they crash together.
What is a convergent plate boundary?
This type of volcano has a narrow base and steep sides because cinders and ash spew from a single vent at the top of the volcano.
What is a cinder cone volcano?
It is the spot on the earth's surface above the focus.
What is the epicenter?
They are supplied by nature for energy.
What are energy resources?
The largest layer of earth's interior, where magma flows.
What is the mantle?
It is a supercontinent that broke apart slowly and drifted apart forming the 7 continents.
What is continental drift?
It is molten rock.
What is magma?
It is measured with a seismograph.
What is magnitude?
Animals, soil, minerals, plants, and water can be used to make a variety of products that are necessary for people.
What are material resources?
The innermost part of earth.
What is the core?
They can be convergent or divergent.
This type of volcano produces alternating layers of rock and lava and can grow into huge mountains.
What is a composite cone volcano?
It is where the pressure is released in the earth's crust.
What is the focus?
They can be replaced on a regular basis by nature.
What are renewable resources?
The outermost layer of the earth.
What is the crust?
Where crust is neither made or destroyed as the plates slide past each other.
What is a transform boundary?
What is an active volcano?
This will occur when too much pressure builds up, and rocks suddenly slide past each other and release the pressure.
What is an earthquake?