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Earthquakes
Biomes
Earth
Volcanoes
Plate Tectonics
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Shaking of the Earth due to tectonic plates.
What are earthquakes?
100
The largest biome in the world.
What is the marine biome?
100
The three compositional layers of Earth.
What is the core, mantle, and crust?
100
A vent or fissure in Earth's surface through which melted rock and gases pass.
What is a volcano?
100
The theory that explains how large pieces of Earth's outermost layer move and change shape
What is plate tectonics?
200
The most common place earthquakes occur in California.
What is the San Andreas Fault?
200
The sunlight, temperature, rainfall, and soil of an environment.
What are the abiotic factors of an environment?
200
All the physical layers of Earth.
What is inner core, outer core, mesosphere, asthenosphere, and lithospere?
200
Volcanically active places that are not located at tectonic plate boundaries.
What are hot spots?
200
Pieces of the lithosphere that move around on top of the asthenosphere.
What are tectonic plates?
300
1906 7.8 Earthquake in Northern California.
What was the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake?
300
Very dry, and often very hot biomes.
What is the desert biome?
300
The outermost compostional layer of Earth.
What is the crust?
300
Liquid rock produced under Earth's surface.
What is magma?
300
The result of density differences that are caused by the flow of heat within Earth.
What is tectonic plate motion?
400
The amount of seismic energy an earthquake releases.
What is magnitude?
400
The biome that has a fairly dry climate but receives only a little more rainfall than a desert does.
What is a chapparal?
400
The single large continent that gave rise to today's continents.
What is Pangaea?
400
The boundary between two tectonic plates that are pulling away from one another.
What is a divergent boundary?
400
The two plates that California lays on.
What is the Pacific Plate and North American Plate?
500
Used to describe an earthquake's intensity 1-12.
What is the Modified Mercalli Scale?
500
Three forest biomes (page 588).
What are the coniferous, temperate deciduous, and tropical rain forests?
500
This covers about 71% of Earth's surface.
What is water?
500
The boundary where two tectonic plates collide.
What is a convergent boundary?
500
The average rate of movement for different plates per year.
What is the ranges between 2.5 cm/year through 15 cm/year?