This is the movement of rocks and sediment moving from one location to another
What is Erosion?
100
Where volcanoes encircle the Pacific Ocean. There is a tremendous amount of seismic activity here.
What is The Ring of Fire?
100
Center layer of the Earth. In the shape of a sphere (ball). Made of Iron and Nickel.
What is Inner Core?
100
Sudden violent shaking of the Earth's lithosphere.
What is an earthquake?
100
Oxygen and nitrogen are components of this sphere.
What is the atmosphere?
200
The changing of the composition of a rock so it breaks down.
What is chemical weathering?
200
A volcano that's last eruption occured over 50 years ago?
What is dormant?
200
The least dense layer of Earth.
What is Crust?
200
The study of earthquakes and seismic waves.
What is Seismology?
200
All of the water on the Earth's surface.
What is the Hydrosphere?
300
An example is a tree lifting up a sidewalk and breaking the sidewalk apart.
What is mechanical weathering (or physical weathering)?
300
Hot molten rock within the crust.
What is magma?
300
Where two plates collide with one another or move towards each other.
What are convergent boundaries?
300
This is caused by earthquakes, landslides, and volcanic activity.
What is a Tsunami
300
It is comprised (or made up of) the crust and the upper mantle.
What is lithosphere?
400
When water enters into a crack, then freezes. This causes the crack to expand and break down the sediment. After the ice melts the crack is still there.
What is Frost wedging?
400
Point where magma leaves the volcano
What is vent?
400
When one lithospheric plate sinks or moves under another.
What is subduction?
400
Most dangerous and slow type of seismic wave.
What is a surface wave?
400
All orgnaisms are part of it.
What is the Biosphere?
500
The process that has chemically weathered the Statue of Liberty.
What is oxidation?
500
A tall volcano that is formed when lava flows alternating with cinder and ash.
What is a composite volcano? (or stratovolcano)
500
the driving movemnt of plate tectonics. It is caused by the heating and colling of molten rock within the mantle.
What are convection currents?
500
The point where the fault movement occured AND the point right above it on the Earth's surface.
What is focus and the epicenter?
500
Takes up 2% of the Earth's hydrosphere and is an example of water in solid form.