Vocabulary
Materials or substances that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain
What are Natural Resources?
The process that drives plate movement (involves the transfer of heat)
What is Convection?
The scientist responsible for the theory of Continental Drift
What is Alfred Wegener?
An area around the Pacific Ocean where most volcanoes and earthquakes occur
What is The Ring of Fire?
Is groundwater distributed evenly or unevenly around the world?
What is Unevenly?
The layer of the Earth at which tectonic plates are located
What is the Lithosphere?
The process in which rocks are brought to the surface, creating mountains
What is Uplift?
This type of boundary occurs when two tectonic plates slide past each other
What is Transform?
The geographic formation that forms when two continental plates converge
What is Mountains?
Coal, natural gas, and oil are examples of this.
What are Fossil Fuels?
The area where two tectonic plates meet
What is a Plate Boundary?
The gradual movement of tectonic plates across Earth's surface
What is Continental Drift?
The supercontinent that existed before the continents drifted apart
What is Pangaea?
Fault lines occur at this type of plate boundary.
What is Transform?
The majority of our water supply is used for __________ and __________.
What is Agriculture and Industry?
A body of permeable rock that contains groundwater
What is an Aquifer?
The process during which a more dense tectonic plate slides underneath a less dense plate
What is Subduction?
What did Wegener use as evidence for continental drift?
What is Fossil Distribution?
At which type of convergent boundary do volcanic islands form?
What is Oceanic-Oceanic?
A type of natural resource that replenishes itself
What is a Renewable Resource?
The upper layer of the Earth's mantle where convection occurs
What is the Asthenosphere?
Seaflooring spreading, the process during which new ocean floor is created, occurs at this type of plate boundary
What is Divergent?
The three types of convergent plate boundaries
When one plate subducts underneath another plate, __________ and ___________ are formed.
What is Trenches and Volcanoes?
The ____________ _____________ is home to most of the oil reserves in the world.
What is The Middle East?