A layer of solid brittle rock compromising the outer 100 kilometers of Earth. It contains both the crust and the upper mantle.
What is the lithosphere?
100
A seismic sea wave that forms when an earthquake occurs on the ocean floor.
What is a tsunami?
100
Changes in the tilt of slabs of rock below ground, swelling rock formations.
What is one sign of an earthquake warning?
100
Thursday, June 2, 2016
When is S.W.I.S.H.?
200
Earth's crust and upper mantle are broken into enormous slabs
What are tectonic plates?
200
The San Andreas fault in California.
What is an example of a strike-slip fault in the United States?
200
New ocean floor is continually being added.
What is sea floor spreading?
200
Changes in Earth's magnetic and gravitation fields.
What is a sign of an earthquake warning?
200
June 10,2016
When do yearbooks arrive?
300
An earthquake is caused by sudden shifts in which of the following layers.
What is the crust?
300
Folded mountains.
When two faults are pushing directly toward each other what type of mountains are formed?
300
Rock slabs are pushing together and one rock slab has pushed under the other along the fault in a subduction zone.
What is a Reverse Fault?
300
Two centers located in United States that use satellites to gather seismic data from more than 20 countries.
What is a tsunami warning that uses satellites?
300
chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, yearbook and lots of other things.
What is the ice cream social?
400
Heat from deep in Earth's interior is transferred to its crust by which of the following?
What is convection in the mantle?
400
Normal fault
What type of fault occurs where rock slabs are pulling apart and one slab has moved up, while the other has moved down along the fault like the Great Rift Valley of Africa?
400
When two plates are pushing toward one another and one rock slab pushes under the other.
What is a subduction zone?
400
An earthquake that registers more than 6.5 on the Richter scale.
What is a Tsunami warning that uses a scale?
400
Harry Stiles
Which 1 Direction band member did Taylor Swift date?
500
Earthquakes occur more frequently in California than in Massachusetts.
Is Massachusetts or California located on the boundary of two crustal plates and which one has more frequent Earthquakes?
500
The rock slabs are pulling apart and one slab has moved up while the other has moved down along the fault.
What is a reserve fault? .
500
Plates move past one another.
What is transform-fault boundaries?
500
Tsunami sensors that are flexible metal tubes that are weighted.
What is the tsunami warning that is used on the ocean floor?
500
The Red Sox franchise has won the MLB World Series 7 time(s). They won in the following year(s):
1912
1915
1916
1918
2004
2007
2013
How many times have the RED SOX won the world series? Bonus 500 can you name the years?