Chapter 13

Question 1

What is it called when plates moves away from each other?

Answer 1

Plate divergence

Question 2

What is The result of plate divergence occurring on the oceanic crustal layer?

Answer 2

Earthquakes and volcanoes

Question 3

What is the result of plate divergence occurring on the continental crustal layer?

Answer 3

Rift valleys, such as the Red Sea and Lake Baikal

Question 4

What is it called when plates move toward each other and collide?

Answer 4

Plate convergence

Question 5

What is it called when the denser plate is forced to go under the less dense plate at the convergent margin?

Answer 5

Subduction

Question 6

Which plate is denser, the oceanic plate or the continental?

Answer 6

Oceanic plate

Question 7

What trench is the deepest part of the Pacific ocean?

Answer 7

The Mariana trench

Question 8

What trench is the deepest part of the Atlantic ocean?

Answer 8

The Puerto Rico trench

Question 9

Earthquakes in the water can cause what?

Answer 9

Tsunami’s

Question 10

Pressure from the converging plates cost to brittle cross to fracture, and crumple or fold resulting in…

Answer 10

Orogeny

Question 11

What are mountains due to pressure induced folding called?

Answer 11

Orogenic mountains

Question 12

What do oceanic oceanic plate convergence result in?

Answer 12

An island arc

Question 13

Where can you find island arcs?

Answer 13

Australia, the Philippines, and Japan

Question 14

What is the result of a continental continental plate convergence?

Answer 14

Large interior mountain ranges

Question 15

Where on earth can you find continental continental plate convergence

Answer 15

Alps and The Himalayas

Question 16

What is a passive plate margin?

Answer 16

When plates slide past each other as they move in opposite directions.
No crust/lithosphere Is being created nor destroyed

Question 17

What is an example of passive plate margin?

Answer 17

The San Andreas fault in California

Question 18

Is a lava plateau quiet or explosive?

Answer 18

Quiet

Question 19

Is a shield volcano quiet or explosive?

Answer 19

Quiet

Question 20

Is a composite cone quiet or explosive?

Answer 20

Quiet

Question 21

What is the most explosive of all eruptions?

Answer 21

A Phreatic eruption

Question 22

What is the degradation?

Answer 22

When elevation is lowered due to erosion

Question 23

What is aggradation?

Answer 23

Raises the elevation by filling in depressions through deposition

Question 24

What are the primary agents of gradation?

Answer 24

Ice, water, wind

Question 25

What letters represent physical weathering of Koppen climate zones?

Answer 25

D,ET, H

Question 26

What is regulus?

Answer 26

The broken bed rock

Question 27

At what latitude and altitude would you find physical weathering?

Answer 27

Both high

Question 28

How would the humidity and temperature be for physical weathering?

Answer 28

Low humidity and low temperature

Question 29

What are the letters for chemical weathering?

Answer 29

A and C

Question 30

At what humidity and temperature does chemical weathering occur?

Answer 30

High humidity and high temperatures

Question 31

What chemical reactions happen for chemical weathering?

Answer 31

Oxidation and solution

Question 32

What are the two components of chemical weathering?

Answer 32

Heat and water

Question 33

What is the fastest flow of movement?

Answer 33

A Lahar

Question 34

What is fallen rock material called?

Answer 34

Talus or scree