final part 1

Question 1

where are the OLDEST rocks in the Atlantic Ocean?

Answer 1

next to the coast of South America and Africa

Question 2

where are the NEWEST rocks in the Atlantic Ocean?

Answer 2

at the mid-oceanic ridge

Question 3

what is a DIVERGENT plate boundary?

Answer 3

where the plates are pulling apart from each other

Question 4

what is a CONVERGENT plate boundary?

Answer 4

where the plates are moving towards each other

Question 5

what is a TRANSFORM plate boundary?

Answer 5

where the plates are sliding past each other

Question 6

what happens when two continental plates converge on each other?

Answer 6

they push into each other and create folded broken mountains

Question 7

how was the folded mountain formed?

Answer 7

when 2 continental plates push into each other

Question 8

how are igneous rocks formed?

Answer 8

lava cools and freezes

Question 9

how are sedimentary rocks formed?

Answer 9

sediment from rivers flow to the ocean and create layers which build up and squeeze together

Question 10

how are metamorphic rocks formed?

Answer 10

underground rocks are changed by hot lava nearby

Question 11

what is the name of the device used to measure earthquake waves?

Answer 11

seismograph

Question 12

where do most earthquakes take place?

Answer 12

along the plate boundaries

Question 13

what is the INTENSITY of and earthquake?

Answer 13

damage

Question 14

what is the MAGNITUDE of an earthquake?

Answer 14

energy

Question 15

what is the renewable energy resources?

Answer 15

what is made as fast as it is used. solar, geothermal, dams

Question 16

what are landslides caused by?

Answer 16

steep hills, rain and a clay layer under the soil

Question 17

The industry that uses most of California’s freshwater is?

Answer 17

agricultural, farming

Question 18

what do you call it when a certain area along a fault has not had an earthquake for a long time?

Answer 18

seismic gap

Question 19

The type of volcano is made of lava flows from nonviolent eruptions is?

Answer 19

a shield volcano

Question 20

what is the Pacific ring of fire?

Answer 20

volcanoes around the Pacific caused by plate subducting under a continental plate to make volcanoes

Question 21

what is a hotspot?

Answer 21

it’s a location where a plume of lava comes to the surface and creates a lone volcano

Question 22

how are most fossils formed?

Answer 22

when an animal dies and it’s body is covered by layers of sediment

Question 23

what type of volcano is the MOST explosive?

Answer 23

composite volcano

Question 24

what type of volcano is the LEAST explosive?

Answer 24

shield volcano