Plate Boundaries
The three types of plate boundaries.
What are Convergent, Divergent, Transform Boundaries?
Natural disasters caused by plate tectonics. (3)
The removal of large areas of forests for human purposes
What is deforestation?
Pollution from a single source that can be identified?
What is point-source pollution?
The four major layers of the Earth.
What is the Crust, Mantle, Outer Core, and Inner Core?
When two plates move towards each other, converge, or collide.
What is a Convergent Boundary?
Plate boundary forming mountains.
What is a Continental Boundary?
The development of desert-like conditions due to human
What is desertification?
Pollution from a widespread area that cannot be traced back to a single location
What is nonpoint-source pollution?
The hottest layer of the earth.
What is the Inner Core?
What is a Divergent Boundary?
Mid-ocean ridges and new crust forms at this plate boundary.
What is a Divergent Boundary?
The development of land for houses and other buildings near a city
What is urbanization?
The type of pollution that is easiest to eliminate.
What is Point-Source Pollution?
The layer we live on, and the coolest layer.
What is the Crust?
When two plates slide side by side.
What is a Transform Boundary?
Earthquakes occur at this plate boundary.
What is a transform boundary?
Planting trees to replace trees that have been cut or burned down.
What is reforestation?
A large concrete structure used to harness the power of running water to generate electricity.
What is a dam?
The layer of Earth where the convection currents directly result in tectonic plate motion. Bonus points for naming the specific part of the layer (100 pts).
What is the Mantle? - Asthenosphere (100pts)
The three types of Convergent Boundaries (types of crust).
What are Continental - Continental; Continental - Oceanic; Oceanic - Oceanic?
Broken parts of lithosphere that carry continents and oceans
What are plate tectonics?
The process of restoring land disturbed by mining
What is reclamation?
Regulates sources of water pollution, including sewage systems.
What is the Clean Water Act?
The layers of the Earth from least dense to most dense.
What are the Crust, Mantle, Outer Core, and Inner Core?