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Tectonic Plates
Volcanoes & Quakes
Landforms
Wind and Water
Ice
100
Oceanic Ridges (ie. the Mid Atlantic Ridge) are created by this type of underwater plate boundary.
What is a divergent boundary?
100
The term used to describe fragments and debris that shoot out of a Volcano during an eruption.
What is Tephra?
100
Term for Mountain Building
What is Orogeny
100
Term used to describe the wearing down or a piece of rock or land.
What is erosion.
100
Giant mass of ice that covers land and much of Greenland.
What is a Continental Glacier.
200
Underwater volcanoes due to hot spots, like Hawaii, form these types of islands.
What is an island arc?
200
This type of volcano is typically less conical and more flat. Found in under Yellowstone National Park in the US.
What is a Calderra?
200
The phenomenon responsible for a section of land to rise up after a large weight has been removed from on top of it. (ie. glacier or large water body)
What is Isostatic Rebound/Isostacy?
200
During erosion, transported material via a river or stream is deposited when this happens.
What is loss of energy/slower water flow.
200
Scratch marks found in landscapes and rocks that are organized in a parallel fashion due to retreating glaciers.
What are striations.
300
Subduction boundaries typically create these two geologic events.
What are volcanoes and earthquakes?
300
The point directly above the origin of an Earthquake which is at the surface of the Earth.
What is the Epicentre?
300
Term used to describe a landform's height above sea-level.
What is Elevation
300
The term used to describe a landform created by wind.
What is Aeolian
300
Alpine glaciers typically form these types of valleys amongst mountains.
What are U-Shaped valleys.
400
The large tectonic plate that is most responsible for the Ring of Fire
What is the Pacific Plate?
400
The term used to describe the top (open part) of a volcano.
What is the Vent?
400
During fold mountain formation, the top part or peak of a fold is referred to as this.
What is an Anticline
400
The three forces of Gradation
What are Weathering, Transport and Deposition.
400
Geological event 12,000-15,000 years ago which drastically changed our landscape.
What is the last Ice Age.
500
High, flaw table-top-like land.
What is a Plateau.
500
The 3 main types of seismic waves that are seen during an Earthquake.
What are P waves, S waves and L (surface) Waves.
500
The term used to describe the low lying land separated by two mountains or large hills.
What is a valley
500
The point at which a river does not get any deeper but can only grow in its width.
What is Base level.
500
This depositional feature that is created by a glacier depositing a mound or gravel, soil and rocks.
What is a moraine.