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Earth Science Vocabular Part 1
Earth Science Vocabular Part 1
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What is a destructive force?
One that destroys or damages landforms
One that creates landforms
One that destroys hopes and dreams
One that deposits sediments
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What happens at a divergent boundary?
Tectonic plates move toward eachother
Tectonic plates move past eachother
Tectonic plates move apart
Subduction
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What part of earth does the continental crust cover?
The surface area
Mountains
oceanic basins
The deep parts of the ocean
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What is a fault
valley formed when 2 plates diverge
break in rock caused by tension forces
sections of earths crust and upper part of mantle
vibrations produced when rocks break
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An earthquake is ...
Movement of the energy in Earth's crust
A big, violent storm
When the Earth makes a mountain of lava
Movement of trees on Earth's surface
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what do scientists use to measure the magnitude of earthquakes
Hamburger
Tilt meter
The Richter Scale
Seismometer
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What is CONVERGENT?
Two tectonic plates move toward each other or together.
Rocks formed by when rocks experience extreme heat and pressure.
Naturally occurring, inorganic, solid with chemical composition.
Two tectonic plates move away from each other or separate.
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What are transform plate boundaries?
Plates that move together
Plates that don't move at all
Plates that slide past each other
Plates that move apart
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what are plate tectonics?
the mokey man
Earth's outermost layer,made up of broken of large rocky plates
it's is a werewolf
olny volcanos
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A Divergent boundary ___
Separates
Collides
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What is the focus of an earthquake?
A scale of an earthquake's magnitude
The city where the earthquake happens
The point above where energy is released in an earthquake
The place where energy is released during an earthquake
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what is an epicenter
where a volcano forms
I DON'T KNOW!!!!!!
where the earthquake starts above ground
where the earthquake starts in the earth
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What is a fault
When an earthquake occours
When a break in the earths surface lets rocks move around
When a tsunami happens
Why am i still playing this
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What is the epicenter?
Point inside of the earthquake
Point directly above an earthquake
Point directly below the earthquake
Point not near the earthquake
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_______is the amount of energy released by an earthquake.
seismic wave
power
seismograph
magnitude
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What is a constructive force?
One that weathers landforms
One that erodes landforms
One that builds up landforms
One that destroys landforms
