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Plate Tectonics
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Shaping Earth's Surface
Miscellaneous
100
Magma
What is the substance that flows out of a volcano?
100
A sudden movement of the Earth's crust.
What is an earthquake?
100
The movement of pieces of weathered rock from one place to another.
What is erosion?
100
The place where an earthquake begins
What is the focus?
200
when continents slowly move to another position
What is continental drift?
200
lava
What is the material that comes up through Earth's surface and hardens?
200
a crack in the Earth's crust
What is a fault?
200
causes chemical weathering
What is acid rain?
200
Particles of soil and rock that are carried along in the water.
What is sediment?
300
a scientist who examines rocks to find out about EArth's history and structure.
What is a geologist?
300
Volcanoes tend to erupt at these places.
What is where one plate moves under another? or What is near edges of tectonic plates?
300
The measure of the amount of energy released during an earthquake.
What is magnitude?
300
gravity, wind and running water
What are three causes of erosion? or What are three examples of physical weathering?
300
These form when waves pick up sand and deposit it in the water.
What are sandbars?
400
The force that occurs when plates are pushed together.
What is compression?
400
Location of the Ring of Fire
What is around the Pacific Ocean?
400
A giant wave caused by an earthquake under the ocean.
What is a tsunami?
400
Walls built to hold water back along the banks of a river that floods.
What are levees?
400
A place that is easily flooded when river water rises.
What is a floodplain?
500
The force that twists, tears, or pushes one part of the crust past another.
What is shear?
500
Currently erupted or has recently erupted
What is active volcano?
500
Mercalli Scale and Richter Scale
What are scales to measure earthquakes?
500
The process by which eroded materials are dropped off in another place.
What is deposition?
500
Can control the speed of the flow of water in a river.
What are dams?