Test Review - 10/22 (A) & 10/23 (B)
- What evidence supports Wegener's continental drift theory?
- List the layers of the Earth from outermost to innermost. Which are solid? Which are liquid?
- What drives plate motion?
- Describe and draw a transform plate boundary. (stress, processes, faults)
- Describe what happens to the tectonic plates along a transform boundary at the moment when an earthquake occurs.
- Describe and draw what happens at each convergent plate boundary: Oceanic-Oceanic, Oceanic-continental, continental-continental(stress, processes, faults, landforms)
- Describe what happens at a subduction zone. How does it lead to volcanic activity?
- Describe and draw what happens at a divergent plate boundary (stress,processes, faults, landforms)
- What are anticlines? What are synclines?
- Describe the motion of the hanging wall relative to the footwall in a normal fault.
- Describe the motion of the hanging wall relative to the footwall in a reverse fault.
- Where is an earthquake's epicenter located? How many seismic stations are needed to pinpoint the epicenter?
- What is the name of the instrument that measures earthquake waves?
- What major transform boundary (strike-slip fault) runs through North America?
- Describe the three types of seismic waves (speed, direction, materials they travel through)
- Which type of seismic wave is the most destructive?
- Explain how a tsunami is generated. What are the negative ecological impacts that occur on coastal environments?
- What is liquefaction?
- Describe the two types of lava flows.
- What is pyroclastic material?
- What is viscosity? How does it affect the type of eruption?
- How did the Hawaiian islands form? What tectonic setting are they associated with?
- Describe each type of volcano: shield, composite, cinder cone (size, type of eruption, locations)