2020-21 NHD Ch 2 Natural Hazards and Disasters Chapter 2 Vocabulary Quiz

Question 1

An elongate spreading zone in Earth's lithosphere.

Accepted Answer

Rift Zone

Question 2

Theory that lithospheric plates move relative to one another; can Collide, Pull-A-Part, or slide past one another

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Plate Tectonics

Question 3

The gradual movement of continents as their positions change on the Earth's surface

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Continental Drift

Question 4

Where seafloor spreads apart in a mid Oceanic Ridge during plate tectonic movement.

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Seafloor Spreading

Question 5

The thick layer of Earth below the thin crust in above the core.

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Mantle

Question 6

Isostatic Equilibrium-- lower density Crust floats in Earth's higher-density mantle.

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Isostacy

Question 7

Part of Earth's mantle, below lithosphere, behaves in plastic manner.Rigid+ brittle lithosphere move slowly over it p.17

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Asthenosphere

Question 8

Elongated depression where descending ocean floor moves under overriding tectonic plate at subduction zone .

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Trench

Question 9

The region around a magnet in which magnetism is felt.

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magnetic field

Question 10

What would my life choices be like if I lived in the zone of convergence between two lithospheric plates?

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I would purchase earthquake insurance

Question 11

The zone of convergence between two lithospheric ( continental) plates ( p. 20)

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Collision Zone

Question 12

Supercontinent that began to break up 225 million years ago to form today's continents

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Pangea

Question 13

A high standing Rift or spreading zone in an ocean, for example, the Mid-Atlantic Ridge or the East Pacific Rise.

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Mid Oceanic Ridge

Question 14

A fault boundary where two tectonic plates slide laterally past one another.

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Transform boundary

Question 15

Plate tectonics explains why we have ____+_______.

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Earthquakes and Tsunamis

Questions 15