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Plate Tectonics
The Water Cycle
Volcanoes
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Need to Know Information
100
A block of lithosphere that consists of the crust and a rigid part of the mantle.
What are tectonic plates?
100
Rain, sleet, snow, or hail that falls from a cloud to Earth's surface.
What is Precipitation?
100
A vent or fissure in the Earth's surface through which magma and gases are expelled.
What is a Volcano?
100
The study of Earthquakes.
What is Seismology?
100
The hypothesis that states the continents once formed a single landmass, broke up, and drifted to their present location.
What is Continental drift?
200
This type of boundary occurs when two plates side pass each other.
What are Transform Boundaries?
200
The downward movement of water through pores and other spaces caused by gravity.
What is Percolation?
200
The most common type of eruptions.
What are Non-explosive eruptions?
200
This type of boundary is responsible for creating earthquakes.
What are Transform boundaries?
200
The name of the single continent that contained all of the present landmass was called this.
What is Pangea?
300
This type of boundary occurs when two plates move apart from each other.
What are Divergent Boundaries?
300
The precipitation that flows over land into streams, rivers, and the ocean.
What is Runoff?
300
The body of molten rock that feeds a volcano.
What are magma chambers?
300
A volcanically active area of Earth's surface far from a tectonic plate boundary.
What are Hot spots?
300
The plate boundaries surrounding the Pacific Ocean littered with volcanoes is called this.
What is the Ring of Fire?
400
This type of boundary occurs when two plates move towards each other.
What are Convergent Boundaries?
400
In this process, water loses energy.
What is Condensation?
400
This consists of volcanic bombs, ash, and blocks.
What are Pyroclastic materials?
400
Built of layers of lava released from repeated non-explosive eruptions.
What are Shield volcanoes?
400
The major tectonic plate that we are currently on.
What is the North American Plate?
500
The theory that explains how large pieces of the Earth's outermost layers move and change shape.
What is Plate Tectonics?
500
In this process, water gains energy.
What is Evaporation?
500
An opening at the surface of the Earth through which volcanic materials pass.
What are Vents?
500
These are two key factors involved in the formation of magma.
What are Pressure and Temperature?
500
The five physical layers of the Earth.
What are the Lithosphere, Asthenosphere, Mesosphere, Outer Core, and the Inner Core?