Landforms
This type of landform is a position of the earth that is higher than the area surrounding it but is less than 1000 ft tall
What is a hill?
This layer is described as a solid metal ball
What is the inner core?
This type of plate boundary is where two plates collide against one another.
What is a convergent plate boundary?
This scale is used to measure the intensity of an earthquake.
What is the Richter scale?
A landform with water on three sides of it.
What is a peninsula?
This landform has water completely surrounding it
What is an island?
This "physical layer" has many landforms on it
What is the lithosphere?
The modern plate theory is called...
What is continental drift?
The 2011 Japanese earthquake that turned into a tsunami measured at a _____ on the richter scale.
What is 9.0?
A massive body of slow moving ice?
What is a glacier?
This landform is like a mountain but has a flat top area
What is a plateau?
This layer means "weak" in Greek
What is the asthenosphere?
This type of plate tectonic rubs up against the adjacent plate tectonic.
What is a transform boundary?
The term for the place where an earthquake begins
What is an epicenter?
A flat area that is higher than the land around it.
What is a plateau?
This landform is a cluster of islands
What is an archipelago?
This layer of the earth is made up of hard, strong, and solid rock
What is the mesosphere?
The plate that is converges against the South American plate to form the Andes mountains is called...
What is the Nazca plate?
As tsunamis get closer to the shore line this happens.
What is they speed up or go faster?
a narrow passage of water connecting two seas or two other large areas of water.
What is a strait?
This landform is a narrow passage of water between two pieces of land.
What is a strait?
This term is the technical term for vibrations that are given off when there is an earthquake
What is a seismic wave?
This term means a fracture or zone of fractures in the Earth's crust that allows the blocks of rock to move relative to each other.
What is a fault?
This predictable wind pattern that can be categorized at hot, dry, and fast gusts of wind helped fuel the Cedar fires in San Diego, CA in 2003.
What are the Santa Ana winds?
What is lapilli?