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Earth's Crust
Landforms
Changes
Mountains and Climate
Oceans Effect on Climate
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These are the giant, solid pieces of rock which float on partly melted rock.
What are plates?
100
These are Earth's surface features, such as mountains, valleys, and rivers.
What are landforms?
100
This is an opening in Earth's surface that lets melted rock, ash, and gases escape during an eruption.
What is a volcano?
100
The higher you climb a mountain, the higher into the atmosphere you go, the _____ the temperature will be.
What is cooler?
100
Places near oceans often have (cold/mild/hot) climates.
What is mild?
200
Earth's outermost layer that is very thin is called this.
What is crust?
200
These mountains are formed when two plates bump into each other, squeeze the land and rock, and push it all upward. They are usually the tallest type. The Rocky Mountains are an example.
What are Folded Mountains?
200
This man hypothesized that at one time all of the continents were joined together in a single land mass he called Pangea.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
200
This process occurs when warm, wet air moves toward a mountain and it is forced to move up the mountain, higher into the atmosphere, where is cools and forms tiny water droplets. Then it rains before the air continues over the top of the mountain and down the other side, where the climate is very dry.
What is the Rain Shadow Effect?
200
This heats and cools more slowly than land does. Therefore this stays closer to the same temperature year round.
What is water/oceans.
300
These are where the edges of plates meet and where the biggest changes in Earth's crust happen, and where volcanoes and earthquakes happen most often. In America, it's along the West Coast.
What are plate boundaries?
300
The longest mountain range on Earth is located here.
What is in the oceans?
300
Some volcanoes build up mountains from the ocean floor. If they become tall enough to rise above the ocean they become these.
What are volcanic islands?
300
Generally, areas closer to these are cooler, while areas closer to the equator are warmer.
What is the poles?
300
Warm ocean currents, such as the Gulf Stream, flow away from this, while cool ocean currents, such as the California Current, flow away from this.
What is the equator and poles?
400
The bowl shaped land under an ocean is called this.
What is an ocean basin?
400
This type of mountain is formed when land and rock slides upward between a crack in Earth's crust.
What are Fault-block Mountains?
400
Harry Hess proposed a theory he called Sea-Floor Spreading, and this was evidence he used to support his idea.
What is Pillow-shaped molten material, Magnetic Strips, or Drilling Samples
400
The daily condition of the air at a certain time and place is called this.
What is weather?
400
This happens when cooler air over the land blows out over the ocean, because the warmer air over the ocean is rising. This happens at night.
What is a Land breeze?
500
This is a crack in the plates of Earth's crust.
What is a fault?
500
This is formed during subduction when land and rock slides downward in a crack, or fault, in Earth's crust.
What is a Rift Valley?
500
This type of Plate Boundary occurs when two plates move apart, usually at a mid-ocean ridge.
What is a Divergent Boundary?
500
The average weather of a place over a long period of time is this.
What is climate?
500
This happens when the cooler air over the oceans blows from sea and over the land, because the warmer air over the land is rising. This happens during the day.
What is a sea breeze?