ISP 203B Exam 1 2024 || Questions & Answers (100% Verified)
ISP 203B Exam 1 2024 || Questions & Answers (100% Verified) ISP 203B Exam 1 2024 || Questions & Answers (100% Verified) Earthquakes and what go hand in hand? - ANSWER - wildfires Where are earthquakes and wildfires? - ANSWER - california and parts of the west coast Hurricanes and what go hand in hand? - ANSWER - Flooding Where do flooding and hurricanes occur? - ANSWER - florida and along the gulf coast Where do tornados occur? - ANSWER - south central US What river ran near the new madrid fault line? - ANSWER - Mississippi River What is the madrid fault line? - ANSWER - a source of series of quakes in early 1800 that caved in river banks, sunk entire islands and pushed boats far into land Tsunami off the west coast of sumatra indonesia. The indian plate was subducted by the burma plate and triggered a series of tsunamis - ANSWER - Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2004 What is the Lithosphere? - ANSWER - the earths outer shell Three types of tectonic boundaries - ANSWER - Convergent, divergent, transform What occurs during convergent? - ANSWER - plates move into one another What occurs during divergent? - ANSWER - plates move apart what occurs during transform? - ANSWER - plates move sideways in relation to eachother What is the highest point on earth? - ANSWER - mount everest what occurred when india and asia crashed? - ANSWER - Rising of the himilaya What is subduction? - ANSWER - a process that takes place at convergent boundaries when one tectonic plate moves under another plate and sinks into the mantle as plates converge
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