Volcanoes and Earthquakes
Breaks in the earth's surface along which rock can move.
What is a fault?
The process of breaking down rocks
What is weathering?
Primary force behind erosion.
What is gravity?
A material in nature that God made for man's use that includes soil, water, air, minerals and fossil fuels.
What are natural resources?
All of the earth's water is referred to as what?
What is hydrosphere?
A machine that measures the magnitude of an earthquake
What is the Richter scale?
The process of carrying weathered materials to a new location.
What is erosion?
Scientist who studies soil.
List 4 types of renewable energy resources.
What is solar, wind, geothermal and hydroelectric?
A volcano that has not erupted in the past and is not expected to erupt again.
What is extinct?
The beginning point of an earthquake.
What is focus?
3 types of mechanical weathering.
What is pressure release, abrasion, exfoliation, etc?
3 agents of erosion.
What is wind, water and ice?
A type of resource that cannot be replaced in a relatively short amount of time.
What is non-renewable resource?
Why are petroleum, natural gas and coal called fossil fuels?
What is they are plant and animal remains buried quickly?
The idea that the earth's crust is made up of moving plates
What is Theory of Plate Tectonics?
3 particles of soil from smallest to largest.
What is clay, silt, and sand?
Process of moving weathered particles from one place to another.
What is erosion?
Three ways to conserve natural resources.
What is reduce, reuse, recycle?
Why is the existence of Pangea a belief rather than a fact?
What is unable to be proven?
A product of a volcanic eruption that looks like fog
What is vog?
A type of chemical weathering caused by sulfur and carbon dioxide in the air combined with water from precipitation.
What is acid rain?
Type of soil conservation where farmers plant a low growing crop to prevent erosion in bare fields.
What is ground cover?
A non-renewable resource that depends on uranium that is clean and efficient.
What is nuclear energy?
Difference between stalactite and stalagmite.
What is stalactite grows from ceiling of cave and stalagmite builds from ground of cave?