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Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Plate Boundaries
Humans and Energy
The Environment
100
Volcanic gasses, temperature, and silica content are all contributing factors of this 'flowing' feature of lava.
What is viscosity?
100
The Earth features several of these 'boundary' areas where earthquakes commonly occur.
What is a fault?
100
This type of fault involves the plates moving side to side against each other.
What is a strike slip fault?
100
This process involves the flow of electrons.
What is electricity?
100
The 'Great Pacific' one of these is thought to occupy an area the size of Texas.
What is a garbage patch?
200
San Francisco Mountain was once an active type of this volcano.
What is a Stratovolcano?
200
Earthquakes occur how often on Earth?
What is several times per day?
200
This large fault system that runs through California creates the frequent earthquakes that are experienced there.
What is the San Andreas Fault?
200
Most power plants today are called thermal plants, because they involve transferring heat energy into this gas.
What is steam?
200
This is the result of people removing old growth for farms, ranches, or industrial products.
What is deforestation?
300
Volcanoes are most associated with this type of plate boundary.
What is a convergent boundary?
300
This seismic wave is the first one to arrive in an earthquake.
What is a p-wave?
300
This weatherman was grounded very quickly when his theories began to form the concept of plate tectonics.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
300
Roads, steel, people, and power lines are all examples of____.
What is infrastructure?
300
This process involves the moving and manipulation of the land for mineral extraction.
What is mining?
400
This volcanic hazard is considered the most deadly to human life.
What is a pyroclastic flow?
400
How many locations are required to determine the where an earthquake occurred?
What is 3?
400
This feature is formed when magma creates new crust along two divergent boundaries.
What is an oceanic ridge?
400
These are the three primary sources of Earth's energy.
What is the sun, the moon, and the core of the Earth?
400
This National Park was the world's first due to its unique scenery, abundant wildlife, and its collection of strange geologic features.
What is Yellowstone?
500
This nutritious element is the reason why large populations live near deadly volcanoes.
What is Nitrogen?
500
This is the centralized location of an earthquake, the physical location on the crust.
What is an epicenter?
500
The evidence that supports the existence of this super-continent helped to support plate tectonics.
What is Pangea?
500
This resource type involves creating thermal energy from uranium.
What is nuclear energy?
500
This is the 'single greatest factor affecting global climate change'.
What is addition of Carbon Dioxide?