Geology

Question 1

outside in division of earth

Answer 1

crust- solid inner portion, multon outter coar
lithospere
mantle - lower (D’ prime) and upper layer (D”prime)
asthenosphere
coar

Question 2

lithosphere

Answer 2

major and minor plates that move w/ upper mantle

heated via convection cycle of interior of the earth

Question 3

number of major tectonic plate

Answer 3

15

Question 4

joint of pacific and north american plate

Answer 4

san andreas fault

Question 5

horizontal sliding

Answer 5

transform fault line

Question 6

divergent

Answer 6

pulling apart and forming new crust

midatlantic ridge

Question 7

convergent

Answer 7

one plate goes under anoter

volcanic activity

Question 8

subduction process

Answer 8

creates magma

convergent fault lines

Question 9

imaginary vertical lines seperating the earth

Answer 9

longitude

15 degrees –minutes —60seconds within 15 degrees

Question 10

prime meridian

Answer 10

longitudinal ref point of 0

Question 11

latitude

Answer 11

north and south

Question 12

tropic of cancer

Answer 12

25.5 degrees north of the equator
june 21
beging of summer northern hemisphere

Question 13

tropic of capricorn

Answer 13

25.5 degrees south

beginging of winter december 21 in northern hemisphere

Question 14

tundra

tiaga

Answer 14

biome –
highest latitiude
lowest solar radiation

Question 15

tiaga

Answer 15

largest terestrial biome

Question 16

grassland
temporal
shaporial

Answer 16

midlatitiude

biome

Question 17

desert and tropical rainforest

Answer 17

innermost biome

Question 18

8th biome

Answer 18

ocean

Question 19

insolation

Answer 19

incoming solar radiation