Test 2 Review

Question 1

How many plates are there?

Answer 1

15

Question 2

How fast do the plates move

Answer 2

2-3inches a year

Question 3

Sir Francis Bacon

Answer 3

Plates fit like a puzzle

Question 4

Alfred Wegener

Answer 4

Made up pangaea

Question 5

Continental drift theory

Answer 5

Early 1900s
Alfred Wegener
Proposed there was a supercontinent

Question 6

4 types of plate boundaries

Answer 6

Convergent- come together mtns
Divergent- go apart rift valleys
Transform/fault- slip/ grind past San Andreas fault
Subduction- plate gets sucked under

Question 7

What states are over hot spots?

Answer 7

Hawaii

Wyoming

Question 8

How thick is earth’s crust?

Answer 8

5 to 22 miles thick

5 under the ocean

Question 9

Inner core

Answer 9

1
Solid metal
Iron nickel

Question 10

Outer core

Answer 10

2

Molten metal

Question 11

Mantle

Answer 11

3
Thick layer of rock
1800 miles thick

Question 12

Crust

Answer 12

4
Rocky surface
5-22, 5 miles under ocean

Question 13

Gondwana

Answer 13

Gondwanaland
Southern subcontinent
135 million years ago

Question 14

Pangaea

Answer 14

Supercontinent

200 million years ago

Question 15

Laurasia

Answer 15

Northern subcontinent

135 years ago

Question 16

Ring of fire

Answer 16

Circle of volcanoes surrounding the pacific ocean

Question 17

Convection

Answer 17

A circular movement caused when a material is heated, expands and rises, then cools and falls.

Question 18

Hot spot

Answer 18

Hot regions deep within the earth’s mantle. Columns of magma rise from these regions towards the earth’s surface.

Question 19

Magma

Answer 19

Molten rock in the earth

Question 20

Lithosphere

Answer 20

Soil
Rocks
Landforms
Other surface features

Question 21

Atmosphere

Answer 21

Layer if air, water, and other substances above the surfaces

Question 22

Hydrosphere

Answer 22

Water in oceans lakes and rivers and even under the ground

Question 23

Biosphere

Answer 23

Plants animals etc

Question 24

Relief

Answer 24

The difference in elevation between the highest and lowest points

Question 25

Continental climate

Answer 25

The type of climate found in the great central areas of continents in the northern hemisphere characterized by cold snowy winters and hot summers

Question 26

Front

Answer 26

Air mass

Question 27

Climate

Answer 27

Weather patterns that an area typically experiences over a long period of time

Question 28

Weather

Answer 28

The condition of the bottom layer of the earths atmosphere in one place over a short period of time

Question 29

Precipitation

Answer 29

All the forms of water that fall to earth from the atmosphere including rain and snow etc

Question 30

Two types of grasslands

Answer 30

Tropical

Temperate

Question 31

Deciduous

Answer 31

Middle latitudes

Maple

Question 32

Coniferous

Answer 32

Northern hemisphere
Cones
Pine

Question 33

Biome

Answer 33

Major types of ecosystem

Question 34

Ecosystem

Answer 34

Interaction of plant life , animal life , and the physical environment in which they live

Question 35

Permafrost

Answer 35

Permanent layer of frost underneath the soil

Question 36

2 main things that distribute heat

Answer 36

Convection

Wind