Great for geology students, these printable flash cards discuss tectonic plates and the Earth's crust.
There are 25 flash cards in this set (5 pages to print.)
To use:
1. Print out the cards.
2. Cut along the dashed lines.
3. Fold along the solid lines.
Sample flash cards in this set:
| Questions | Answers |
|---|---|
| Groynes | It is a hard engineering coastal defense to stop long shore drift. |
| Sea Wall | it is a hard engineering coastal defense to stop waves from eroding cliffs and sidewalks. |
| Beach Nourishment | It is a soft engineering coastal defense that resupplies beaches with more sand. |
| Hold The Line | When coastal defenses are kept working as when they were new instead of replacing them with new ones. |
| Do Nothing | When the council agrees that it is too expensive or impossible to save the coast, so they 'do nothing'. |
| Managed Retreat | Let the waves do their job to erode the coast line and move everyone out of the area. |
| Crust | The layer of the earth that we live on that is made up of rock. |
| Mantle | The biggest layer of the earth that is made up of magma that is at 3000 degrees on average. |
| Core | The layer in the middle of the earth that is mostly made up of iron and nickel that is at 5000 degrees Celsius. |
| Convection currents | Hot magma rises up to the crust and cools, then sinks back down to the bottom of the mantle. |
| Convergent Boundaries | Where the oceanic and continental crust meet. the oceanic crust sinks into the mantle releasing CO2 and erupting a volcano. |
| Divergent Boundaries | Where two oceanic crust move away from each other letting magma rise creating a shield volcano underwater. |
| Subduction | Where oceanic crust sinks into the mantle. |
| Conservative Boundaries | When two plates move in the same or opposite directions of each other causing earthquakes and no volcanoes. |
| Continental | Land plates that we live on and that are light and do not sink. |
| Oceanic | The plates in the ocean that are heavy and will sink. |
| Volcano | An opening in the Earth's crust that releases lava onto the earth's crust. |
| Magma | Molten rock that moves around in convection currents in the mantle. |
| Lava | Magma when it is on the Earth's crust. |
| Shield | A type of volcano that has a low viscosity and shaped like a shield. |
| Composite | a volcano that erupts violently releasing a lot of ash and lava. |
| Acidic lava | lava that is viscous and high in minerals. |
| Basaltic Lava | It melts very quickly and doesn't travel very far. |
| Tourism | People moving across the globe visiting places. |
| Geothermal | Thermal energy that is released from the mantle up through the crust. |
