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Earth Structure
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Soil
Rock Cycle
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Layer that makes up 0.5% of the the Earth's total mass
What is the Crust
100
What is the scale used to measure earthquakes
What is the Richter Scale
100
The simplest type of volcano that forms when lava is blown violently into the sea and breaks into small fragments and solidify
What is a Cinder Cone
100
This type of erosion occurs when water is not absorbed into the soil and thus evaporates, leaving behind dissolved salts in topsoil.
What is Salinization
100
True or False- the Three types of rocks can change into each other
What is True- Igneous rock can change into sedimentary rock or into metamorphic rock. Sedimentary rock can change into metamorphic rock or into igneous rock. Metamorphic rock can change into igneous or sedimentary rock.
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The plastic-like layer of the mantle
What is the Asthenosphere
200
The place where two plates meet
What is a Fault Line
200
Volcanoes affect the climate by introducing a large quantity of this gas into the atmosphere
What is Sulfur Dioxide
200
The community of organisms living all or part of their lives in the soil. It describes a complex living system in the soil and how it interacts with the environments, plants, and animals.
What is the soil food web
200
Name the three types of rocks
What is Sedimentary, Metamorphic, and igneous
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The San Andreas Fault, located near the western coast of North America, is an example of this kind of boundary
What is a Transform Boundary
300
What are the two types of body waves?
What are P and S Waves
300
Symmetrical and composed on multiple layers of lava and ash, Mount Fuji and Mount Ranier are examples of this type of volcano
What is Composite
300
This Horizon of soil tends to be yellowish in color due to the accumulation of iron, aluminum, humic compounds, and clay leached down from the A and E horizons. It can be rich in nutrients in areas where rainwater leeched nutrients from the topsoil.
What is the B Horizon
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What are the Driving forces behind the Rock Cycle
What is Plate Tectonics and the Water Cycle
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Areas where two tectonic plates meet and move toward each other, with one sliding underneath the other and moving into the mantle
What is a Subduction Zone
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What is the location of the Ring of Fire
What is the South Pacific
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The "vent" or "pipe" in a volcano through which lava pasees through
What is the Conduit
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This term helps to develop soil. It is measured by precipitation and temperature. It results in partial weathering of the parent material, which forms the substrate for soil.
What is Climate
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How is each type of rock formed?
What is Igneous- cooling of magma Metamorphic- Heat and pressure of Igneous Sedimentary- Weathering and then compacting
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Discovered in 1909, this boundary separates the oceanic and continental crusts from the mantle
What is the Mohorovicic Discontinuity (Moho)
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What is the largest recorded earthquake ever (magnitude 9.5)
What is the 1960 Valdivia, Chile Earthquake
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The type of volcano which forms from numerous flows that spread out over a wide area and from a central vent
What is a Shield
500
List two common forms of Organic Fertilizer and list two ways in which organic fertilizer can help to improve our environment.
What is either animal manure, green, manure, or compost. and What is it improves soil texture, adds organic nitrogen to soil, stimulates beneficial bacteria and fungi in soil, improves water-holding capacity of soil(helps flooding), and helps to prevent erosion.
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What are the types of Plate tectonic boundaries AND what are results of these boundaries?
What is Convergent, Divergent, Transform AND earthquakes, volcanic activity, and the formation of mountains