geo quiz for my geo class

Layers of earth 1. hard metals and stuff

2. molten metals and stuff

3. convection currents and magma

4. tectonic plates

Geological history: 1. volcanic, 4.6 billion years ago

2.lush, start of life, 570 million years ago

3. dinosaurs, 250 million years ago

4. ice ages, modern life and regions, 66 million years ago

Theorized that continents plates were once connected

Theorized the existence of tectonic plates and that they moved

Plate boundaries: 1. pushing together, creates earthquakes, mountains. Subduction is when a plate goes under another plate

2. two plates move apart, creates volcanos, usually happens in ocreans

3. move against each other, parallel, creates earthquakes

Landform regions, 1. mountainous

2. prairies

3. Wet and swampy

4. Swampy mountains

5. Rocky and rocks and lotsa rocks

6. cold and snowy

Types of forces 1.Breaking down rocks from ice and snow and stuff

2. movement of rocks to new places

3. Rocks and stuff being built up

4. ice sheets covering up large areas and changing the land

lake made by a glacier melting

Magma flows under plates and moves them

A large flat region made of rocks and stuff from a glacier

region made from a glacier moving rocks and stuff with a ridge or mound shape

Rock cycle: 1. Lava cooling

2.Soil and stuff collecting and getting pressured into rocks

3.Other rocks get heat and pressure on it and get turned into new rocks

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Rocks below the soil break down and turn into soil

too much water, the nutrients go under the soil

too little water, good nutrients, but water cant reach it

Boreal, pines, needles

Warmer locations, leafy

Prairies, tall and short grass

arctic, mossy and lichen

Greenhouse effect: 1. sunlight enters the ___

2. energy is absorbed by surfaces and ___

3. heat is captured by _______

Ability for an object to reflect sunlight

Something happens which causes something else to happen which causes the initial thing to happen

Things you can do at home to reduce climate change

things government and companies do to reduce amount of climate change

things government and companies do to protect nature from climate change