200 points Extra credit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Turn in the answers to the following questions via email to Mr. McCauley for
200pts. (answer them on paper and turn in in class for 100 points)
1) What is the deepest part of the ocean?________________
2) Which part of the ocean houses most of the sea life?__________________
3) What was a GUYOT before it became a GUYOT?__________________
4) A mountain underwater in the ocean is called a _________________.
5) The place where the divergent boundary sits in the ocean is called
the ____________________________________.
6) If you traveled to the center of the Pacific ocean, what disturbing
stuff would you see floating in the water? ________________________
7) Salinity means the amount of ______________ in water.
8) What are the two most abundant elements found in ocean water?
__________&_________
9) If the polar ice caps melt, what happens to the water level in the
oceans? _________________________
10) What human actions are causing the polar ice caps to melt?
_____________
11) By turning on the lights in class, how are we polluting the air?
_________________________________
12) What is the most explosive volcano type?________________
13) What is the least explosive volcano type?__________________
14) The Himalayan Mountains are on a __________________ plate boundary.
15) The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is a ______________ plate boundary.
16) The San Andreas Fault sits upon a _______________ plate boundary.
17) What did Alfred Wegener say the continents are doing?_________________
18) What does the word GEOTHERMAL mean? ___________& ___________
19) Richter Scale measure earthquake _________________.
20) The US Navy mapped the oceanfloor by using ____________ , sound
navigation and ranging.
21) The convergence of two continental plates forms __________ mountains.
22) If a divergent boundary is on land, it is called a ____________
valley.
23) The older rocks are in the layers that are ___________ the other
layers.
24) Saturn’s day is less hours than Earth’s because it is ___________
faster.
25) The three types of rock are: ______________, _______________ &
_________.
UPDATED: MAY 21, 2012
