1 | Volcano | | _____ | Water that contains a high concentration of dissolved salts (mainly sodium chloride). |
2 | Magma | | _____ | A fluid or hardened stream or avalanche of mud. |
3 | Lava | | _____ | Hot fluid or semifluid material below or within the earth's crust from which lava and other igneous rock is formed on cooling. |
4 | Pacific Basin | | _____ | The action of surface processes that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust, and then transports it to another location. |
5 | Pacific Ring of Fire | | _____ | Any naturally occurring water except seawater and brackish water. |
6 | Earthquake | | _____ | A term used in science that refers to the geological process of rocks breaking apart without changing their chemical composition. |
7 | Fault Lines | | _____ | A rupture in the crust of the Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface. |
8 | Plate Tectonics | | _____ | The breaking down of rocks, soils, and minerals as well as wood and artificial materials through contact with the Earth's atmosphere, water, and biological organisms. |
9 | Plate Boundaries | | _____ | A sudden and violent shaking of the ground, sometimes causing great destruction, as a result of movements within the earth's crust or volcanic action. |
10 | Uplift | | _____ | The belt or zone of the continental lithosphere where the extensional deformation (rifting) is occurring |
11 | Continental Rifting | | _____ | The sliding down of a mass of earth or rock from a mountain or cliff. |
12 | Richter Scale | | _____ | The envelope of gases surrounding the earth or another planet. |
13 | Salt Water | | _____ | Vertical elevation of the Earth's surface in response to natural causes |
14 | Fresh Water | | _____ | A linear feature that exists between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other. |
15 | Weathering | | _____ | A theory explaining the structure of the earth's crust and many associated phenomena as resulting from the interaction of rigid lithospheric plates which move slowly over the underlying mantle. |
16 | Physical Weathering | | _____ | A numerical scale for expressing the magnitude of an earthquake on the basis of seismograph oscillations. |
17 | Chemical Weathering | | _____ | Also known as the ecosphere, it is the worldwide sum of all ecosystems. |
18 | Erosion | | _____ | The total amount of water that is on the surface of the planet, underground, and in the air. |
19 | Atmosphere | | _____ | Hot molten or semifluid rock erupted from a volcano or fissure, or solid rock resulting from cooling of this. |
20 | Hydrosphere | | _____ | The erosion or disintegration of rocks, building materials, etc., caused by chemical reactions (chiefly with water and substances dissolved in it) rather than by mechanical processes. |
21 | Lithosphere | | _____ | The rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle. |
22 | Biosphere | | _____ | Referred to as the “Ring of Fire” due to intense earthquake and volcanic activity occurring near areas of tectonic plate subduction (where one tectonic plate is forced under another). |
23 | Landslide | | _____ | also referred to as the Circum-Pacific Belt, is a path along the Pacific Ocean characterized by active volcanoes and frequent earthquakes. The majority of Earth's volcanoes and earthquakes take place along this place. |
24 | Mudflow | | _____ | A line on a rock surface or the ground that traces a geological fault. |