Wait what?
This person gave us the Theory of Continental Drift
Who was Alfred Wegener
Puzzles-like fit and fossils are 2 of the 4 proofs of evidence to show the continents were all once joined together. What are the other 2 "proofs"
What are rocks and climate
This is what moves magma around in the mantle
What is a convection current
Deep faulted structures found along the axes of divergent plate boundaries
What is a rift valley
This is how fast ocean plates move
what is as fast as your fingernails or 2cm a year
This person gave us the Theory of Seafloor Spreading
Who was Harry Hess
With your hands, (not actually saying it outloud), show the movement that would occur at the San Andreas Fault
What is a transform fault - hands slipping by each other
The edges of where the plates meet
What is a plate boundary
What is a dormant volcano
How the Hawaiian Islands have been formed, geologically speaking
What is by a hot spot
This is the Earth's most active volcano
What is Kilauea
This is what we use to compare one earthquake to another earthquake
What is the Richter or Moment Scale
This is the rocky, outer layer of the Earth
What is the Lithosphere
This is the zone of when one oceanic plate is forced down, underneath a 2nd plate
What is a subduction zone
The youngest rock formed during sea floor spreading is found here
What is closest to the ridge or crack or fissure divergent boundary
This is the largest volcano to ever erupt in the U.S.
What is the Yellowstone supervolcano
The volcanic ash that comes from lava from a volcano
What is tephra
Iceland is located on this specific geological feature
What is a divergent boundary
When soils shift during an earthquake and can cause buildings to lay on their side, we say this has occurred
What is Liquefaction
How the Himalayas were formed
when 2 continental plate converged together
This is the location where an earthquake occurred
What is the epicenter
This is the study of the natural remanent magnetism in rock bodies
What is Paleomagnetism
The type of volcano Mt St Helens is
What is a composite volcano
When rocks show the same magnetism as the present magnetism field
What is normal polarity
The most common type of rock found on a continental plte
What is granite