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Name on way weathering and erosion can be dangerous?
Any correct answer
What 4 things can cause weathering and erosion?
wind, water, gravity, ice
What is erosion?
The removal and transport of earth materials
The removal and transport of the earth materials is called?
erosion
Large amounts of ash and smoke from volcanoes can do what?
reduce the amount of sunlight that is able to reach the earth and change the temperature of the earth
What major event can happed from underwater earthquakes or volcanoes?
tsunami
What is the largest active zone for earthquakes and volcanic activity called?
the ring of fire
What is the name of the major fault line in California?
The San Andreas Fault
Earthquakes that register __________ or higher on the Richter Scale are considered very bad
7
What scale is used to measure earthquakes?
Richter scale
A break in the earths crust is called what?
fault
Earthquakes happen when these plates slide side by side
transform
Transform plates slide side by side and form what?
earthquakes
What type of tectonic plates spread apart and form volcanoes?
Divergent
Divergent plates spread apart and form what?
volcanoes
What type of tectonic plates come together to form mountains?
convergent
Convergent plates comes together and form what?
mountains
The __________ are located on tectonic plates?
continents
What move along the top of the asenthosphere?
tectonic plates
The inner core is what?
solid metal
The outer core is made up of what?
liquid metal
What is special about the asthenosphere?
it moves and flows
What is the earth's thinnest most outer layer?
lithosphere
what layer of the earth do we walk on?
crust
What layer is the center most part of the earth?
inner core
What layer is beneath the crust?
mantle
The thin outermost layer of the earth is called what?
crust
What are the layers of the earth?
Inner core, outer core, mantle, crust
Where is most of the geosphere located?
the interior of the earth
The biosphere is all of the earth's what?
life
the atmosphere is all of the earth's
air
The hydrosphere is all of the earth's what?
water
The geosphere is all of the earth's what?
land
The earth consists of what 4 things?
Rocks, air, water, living things