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7th Geology 2024
Plate Tectonics,Succession, Ground & Surface water
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Lichen | a pioneer species on a volcanic island |
| Primary | The type of succession that occurs after a volcano |
| Secondary | The type of succession that occurs on land where there has been a forest fire |
| Grass | A pioneer species of secondary succession |
| Soil | Something that Primary succession doesn’t begin with |
| ClimaxCommunity | The end result of succession |
| Equilibrium | When _____ occurs in and area, succession stops happening |
| divergent | Type of plate boundary in which the plates are separating |
| convergent | Type of plate boundary in which the plates are colliding |
| subduction | When 2 plates collide and one plate is forced under another |
| fault | A crack in the Earth’s crust |
| geology | The study of the earth; what it is made of and the processes that effect it |
| continentaldrift | The idea proposed by Alfred Wegner |
| contour | _______ lines connect areas on a map with equal elevation |
| topographic | A flat map that shows relief |
| elevation | What is relief on a map |
| contourinterval | The change in elevation from one contour line to the next |
| steepslope | Closely spaced contour lines on a map indicate this |
| islands | The result of a tectonic plate moving over a hot spot or a plume |
| profile | A view or picture from the side |
| Transform | a tectonic plate boundary where the plates slide past one another |
| relief | elevation on a map |
| pangaea | The name of the supercontinent that may have existed 200 million years ago |
| ridge | A crustal feature formed in the middle of the Atlantic ocean by a divergent boundary |
| foldedmountains | A crustal feature formed by the convergence of 2 continental plates |
| harryhess | The man who discovered that the sea floor was spreading |
| Alfredwegener | The man who couldn’t show how continents move to support his theory of continental drift |
| water | the single greatest agent of erosion |
| mesosaurus | prehistoric lizard fossils found in both South America & Africa |
| glossopteris | prehistoric fern fossil found in India and Antarctica |
| lithosphere | The layer of the Earth consisting of the upper mantle and earth’s crust |
| depression | another name for a hole in the ground |
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