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23 Cards in this Set
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Five pieces of evidence that support the plate tectonics |
Onton ranges, fossil types, glacial striations, seafloor spreading it, magnetic reversals, puzzle pieces |
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Supercontinent |
Pangaea |
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Where are earthquakes and volcanoes most likely to occur |
At the boundaries of plates |
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Describe a continental to continental divergent boundary |
Rift Valley's, great Rift Valley |
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Describe the oceanic to oceanic divergent boundary |
Mid ocean ridges, mid Atlantic Ridge |
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Describe continental to continental boundary |
Postal Cano's, trenches, subduction, andes and cascades mountains |
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Continental to continental convergent boundary please describe |
Folded mountains, Himalayan and Alps |
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Describe a oceanic to oceanic convergent boundary |
Arc islands, trenches, subduction, Aleutian Islands, Japan |
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Describe a transform boundary |
Faults, San Andrea's fault |
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Why do landforms change over time |
Plates moving, weathering, erosion deposition |
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What do glacier make |
You should valleys, terminal moraines that Mark the end of a glacier, boulders called erratics |
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What is it called when wind blown Sam carve rocks into shapes |
Abrasion |
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Describe Loess |
When wind drops fine particles of silt and Clay |
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Gravity causes landslides which can cause a |
A slump which is sudden or a creep which is slow |
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River meanders become what |
Oxbow lakes |
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When a river slows a causes what |
Deltas |
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Weathering causes blank on coastal rock |
See arches and see stacks |
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Deposition at coastal areas produce |
Spitz, beaches, barrier islands |
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What is the core made of |
Iron and nickel |
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Who formed the theory that continents movecalled the continental drift |
Alfred Wagner |
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Who found evidence that proved that Alfred Werner was right |
Henry hess |
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Give examples of mechanical weathering |
Wind, water, ice wedging, read wedging, abrasion, glacial movement |
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Give examples of chemical weathering |
Oxidation, acid rain |
