What is Divergent and Convergent Boundaries and Hot Spots
100
Are continental margins found on the continental crust?
What is yes
100
What are prevailing winds?
What is winds that come from the same direction.
100
What does the term strato mean?
What is layer
200
What do you call the area where the mantle plume hits the lithosphere?
What is a hot spot
200
Name the two types of lava flows?
What is Aa and Pahoehoe.
200
In what ocean are the largest abyssal plains found?
What is the Atlantic Ocean
200
Why does the Artic Ocean not have a gyre?
What is it is too small
200
Where do the convection currents take place?
What is the Ashenosphere
300
How was the theory of plate tectonics discovered?
Using SONAR after World War 2
300
Name the three different types of volcanoes and which one erupts the least.
What is Cinder Cone , Composite Cone and Shield volcanoes. The Cinder Cone volcano erupts the least.
300
Name the parts of the continental margins and which part is the steepest?
What is the continental shelf, slope and rise and the steepest is the continental slope.
300
List the Five Gyres?
What is the North Atlantic, South Atlantic, North Pacific, South Pacific, and Indian.
300
Using paleomagnetism, how do scientists know when a rock has changed position?
What is the magnetic field is not facing north and south
400
Name the three plate tectonic boundaries and describe them?
What is Convergent, Divergent, and Transform fault. Convergent plates come together, Divergent plates separate and Transform Fault plates grind past each other.
400
What factors can cause a very explosive volcano and why?
What is a high viscosity and dissolved gases. A high viscosity uses a lot of pressure and so does when the gases expand.
400
Which sediment is formed from a chemical reaction?
What is hydrogenus sediment
400
What two factors affect the density of water?
What is temperature and salinity
400
Which volcano is the easiest to erode?
What is a Cinder Cone
500
What are the two mechanisms of plate motion?
What is Slab-Pull and Ridge-Push.
500
What are the four possible gases that could be produced by an erupting volcano?
What is water (H2O), Carbon Dioxide (CO2), Sulfur dioxide (SO2), and Chlorine (Cl)
500
What ocean takes up 1/3 of the Earth?
What is the Pacific Ocean
500
In order for the conveyor belt to work what 4 stages does the water undergo?
What is surface currents, density currents, deep ocean currents, and upwelling
500
What day and year did the main event of Mt. Pinatubo occur?