Changing earth processes

Question 1

What is weathering?

Accepted Answer

rocks breaking down

Question 2

The name of the mountain range under the ocean.

Accepted Answer

mid-ocean ridge

Question 3

What do plates do at convergent boundaries?

Accepted Answer

slide past each other

Question 4

Where is the Ring of Fire?

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West of North America in the Pacific Ocean

Question 5

What is name of the number scale telling how powerful earthquakes are?

Accepted Answer

Richter scale

Question 6

Which layer of the Earth is made of molten magma?

Accepted Answer

Mantle

Question 7

New crust forms at what kind of plate boundaries?

Accepted Answer

Divergent

Question 8

Which of the following rocks is metamorphic?

Accepted Answer

Marble

Question 9

What is erosion?

Accepted Answer

rocks moving

Question 10

What is chemical weathering?

Accepted Answer

rocks breaking down chemically

Question 11

What is the name of the volcanic cave we went to on the field trip?

Accepted Answer

Mammoth

Question 12

What is a crack in the Earth?

Accepted Answer

fault

Question 13

What is an example of erosion?

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water

Question 14

What do we call the slow movement of the continents?

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Continental Drift

Question 15

What is the name of the instrument the measures vibrations in the Earth?

Accepted Answer

seismograph

Question 16

The intensity of an earthquake is called what?

Accepted Answer

magnitude

Question 17

What is sea-floor spreading?

Accepted Answer

ocean floor moving apart at divergent boundaries

Question 18

Earthquakes are produced when _____.

Accepted Answer

rocks move along faults

Question 19

The dropping of eroded material in a new place.

Accepted Answer

Deposition

Question 20

What is the name of the theory about the continents spreading apart?

Accepted Answer

Theory of Continental Drift

Question 21

What is the point at ground level directly above the point where an earthquake starts?

Accepted Answer

epicenter

Question 22

What is the name of the waves that cause vibrations in the Earth's crust?

Accepted Answer

seismic waves

Question 23

What type of rock is created from compaction and cementation?

Accepted Answer

Sedimentary

Question 24

What is an example of deposition?

Accepted Answer

a sand dune

Question 25

What is deposition?

Accepted Answer

the place where sediment is dropped off

Question 26

What is the name of the point at which an earthquake originates?

Accepted Answer

focus

Question 27

Earthquakes are produced when ____

Accepted Answer

the movement along faults release energy

Question 28

What type of rock is created from a volcano?

Accepted Answer

igneous

Question 29

What is a Richter scale?

Accepted Answer

a number scale for earthquakes

Question 30

Acid rain is the cause of ____

Accepted Answer

chemical weathering

Question 31

When rocks break down into smaller pieces.

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Weathering

Question 32

When rocks move to new places.

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Erosion

Question 33

The theory that huge pieces of Earth's solid crust move very slowly.

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Plate tectonics

Question 34

Which layer of the Earth contains most of Earth's mass and is the thickest?

Accepted Answer

Mantle

Question 35

The movement of heated liquid or gas.

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Convection currents

Question 36

What is the name given to the first, super continent?

Accepted Answer

Pangaea

Question 37

What is an example of a rapid change?

Accepted Answer

tsunami

Question 38

Earth's crust is made of huge moving sections called ______?

Accepted Answer

plates

Question 39

____ rocks are created from heat and pressure

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Metamorphic

Question 40

Which of the following rocks is Igneous?

Accepted Answer

Pumice

Question 41

What is mechanical weathering?

Accepted Answer

rocks physically breaking down

Question 42

What is the name of the theory about the continents spreading apart?

Accepted Answer

Theory of Continental Drift

Question 43

At convergent plate boundaries, plates do what?

Accepted Answer

slide past each other

Question 44

What is the molten liquid inside the Earth called?

Accepted Answer

magma

Question 45

When two plates move in opposite directions.

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Divergent

Question 46

What is the hole inside of a volcano called?

Accepted Answer

vent

Question 47

What is a convection current?

Accepted Answer

The heated movement of a liquid or a gas

Question 48

Which of the following is not an example of mechanical weathering?

Accepted Answer

acid rain

Question 49

What is not an example of weathering?

Accepted Answer

sand dunes

Question 50

What is the molten, hot liquid called outside of a volcano?

Accepted Answer

lava

Question 51

Which layer of the Earth is made of iron and nickel?

Accepted Answer

Inner core

Question 52

Where does new crust form?

Accepted Answer

divergent boundaries

Question 53

When one plate goes under another plate.

Accepted Answer

Subduction

Question 54

Where the majority of earthquakes and volcanoes occur?

Accepted Answer

Ring of Fire

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