Landforms
A sudden and violent shaking of the ground
What is an earthquake?
The type of rock that forms when magma cools
What is igneous?
A LANDFORM that can be made by convergent (continental-continental) boundaries
What are mountains?
The gas that absorbs the sun's heat and warms the atmosphere
What is methane gas?
The level of _______ today is the highest it has been in millions of years
What is carbon dioxide (CO2)
The breaking down of rocks, soil, and minerals by wind, water, and plants/animals
What is weathering?
The theory that Earth's outer shell is divided into several plates that glide over the mantle
What is plate tectonics?
The reson tectonic plates move
What are convection cells?
Man-made compounds containing chloride, fluoride, and carbon
What are CFCs?
Melting freshwater from _______ alters the ocean
What are glaciers?
A rupture in the Earth's crust that releases hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases from a magma chamber
What is a volcano?
The process where igneous rock turns into sedimentary and then turns into metamorphic, and then melts and becomes igneous agin
What is the rock cycle?
Plates that move towards each other
The gradual increase in the overall temperature of the Earth's overall temperature
When heat increases, ____ are likely to happen more likely and for longer
What are heat waves?
The supercontinent that was formed 335 million years ago and had every continent connected to it
When areas of the ______ are hot, it rises, and when areas of it are cooler, it sinks
What is mantle?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!! *BE DEW BE DEW BE DEW*
The man who discovered continental drift
Who is Alfred Wegener?
Global warming occurs when _______ and other air pollutants collect more than usual in the atmosphere
What is carbon dioxide?
A _______ means there is little to no water available
What is a drought?
The process that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from a location on the Earth's crust and transports it to another location
What is erosion?
The type of rock that only forms on the surface of the Earth
What is sedimentary?
The method used to arrange geological events, and the rocks they leave behind in a sequence
What is relative dating?
The balance between radiation recieved and radiation reflected back
What is the greenhouse gas effect?
The __________ Effect can effect climate because the more CO2 is made, the more infrared light reflects off it, causing warmer temperatures
What is Greenhouse?