Volcanoes
Magma that flows out onto Earth's surface
What is lava
The crack in the earth's crust where stress is suddenly released causing an earthquake.
What is a fault?
Name 3 types of plates
Convergent, divergent, and transform
A giant body of water where salt water is found and covers 70% of the earth.
What is an ocean?
The first scientist to pose the theory of Continental Drift.
Alfred Wegner
A big slow moving piece of ice
What is a glacier?
These volcanoes have become inactive, but people aren't sure they won't erupt again.
What are dormant volcanoes
The locations where two pieces of lithosphere are in contact with each other and can move in different directions.
What are plate boundaries?
What happens when two continental plates collide together?
Mountains
The percent of all the water that is saltwater.
What is 97%
Where do most volcanoes occur?
They occur along the plate boundaries between shifting tectonic plates.
Water found in rivers, streams, and open lakes that contain low concentrations of salt.
What is fresh water?
A zone of frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions that encircles the Pacific Basin
What is the Pacific Ring of Fire
Name given the the scale used to measure an earthquake's magnitude.
What is the Richter scale?
What is the name of the supercontinent?
Pangea
75% of freshwater is trapped here
What is frozen in ice?
What is a hot spot?
A region of volcanic activity in the middle of a tectonic plate.
The ocean is a good source of drinkable water. T or F
What is False?
This type of volcano landform is the most destructive
What is a composite volcano
A measure of the earthquake's energy
What is the magnitude?
What causes plate tectonics to move?
The flow of magma beneath the earth
This word means how much salt is in water
What is salinity?
What are surface waves?
These waves usually cause the most damage on the surface.
Water that is stored in rocks underground
What is groundwater?
There are 3 types of volcanic landforms:
What is Cindercone, Shield, and Composite
A wall of water created when an earthquake causes displacement of the ocean
What is a tsunami (or seismic seawall)?
Plate move, plates hit, plates spread apart (Hint: it's a theory)
What is the theory of Continental Drift?
The process used to remove salt from potable (drinkable) water.
What is desalination?
What is the epicenter?
The name of the location directly above the focus.
The continuous movement of water on, above, and below the surface of the Earth.
What is the Water Cycle?