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What is the study of the Earth's physical structures called?
What is geology?
100
What is Pangaea?
What is when the continents were connected and made a super continent.
100
How many plate movements occur at the plate boundary?
What is (1) plates moving apart, (2) plates colliding and (3) plates moving laterally.
100
A deep valley that occurs when plates collide?
What is a trench.
100
Describe weathering.
What is rocks breaking and decaying over time.
200
Give two examples of landforms.
What are hills, mountains, oceans, rivers, valley, streams, etc.
200
What is the term for plates moving "slowly across the upper mantle?"
What is continental drift.
200
True or false? Plate movement creates distinctive landforms?
What is true!
200
The term for when rocks have been compressed into bends.
What is fold.
200
Name the two processes that cause weathering.
What is chemical and physical.
300
True or false. Forces below the Earth's surface helps shape landforms.
What is True.
300
What occurs along a row and indicates that a plate boundary is nearby?
What are volcanoes.
300
Long ago, the Earth's crust sorted into two layers. Name them or descibe them.
What is the lower layer: (1) Heavier rock found on the ocean floor. (2) Patchy layer of lighter rock that makes up the continents.
300
Places where rock masses and broken apart and moved away from each other.
What is fault.
300
Explain erosion and how it affects the Earth's surface. Give an example.
What is the movement of surface material from one location to another. Dunes.
400
What are the important zones in the Earth's interior?
What the cruse, mantle and inner and outer core.
400
What is the sudden shaking of the Earth's crust and takes place when tectonic forces cause masses of rocks inside the crust to break?
What are earthquakes?
400
Name the continental shelf that extends under the shallow ocean underneath the continents.
What is the continental shelf.
400
What is the name of a famous fault line?
What is San Andreas Fault.
400
What is the most powerful force of erosion and how down it impact the Earth's surface?
What is water. Rainfall can cause rapid erosion, carve deep canyons and move sediment.
500
Choose two zones and describe location and estimate temperature.
Answers may vary.
500
What are the names for the two subcontinents?
What Laurasia and Gondwana.
500
Identify and describe what it's called when continental plates squeeze together?
What folds and faults.
500
When continental plates collide, mountain ranges occur. What is the famous mountain range that was created by collision and continues to grow?
What is The Himalayas.
500
Name and describe one of the other two forces that affect the Earth's surface.
What are waves and wind. Answers vary.