Plate Tectonics
Layers of the Earth
Faults/Stresses
Volcanos
Earthquakes
100
Boundary the makes a rift valley or ridge.
What is a divergent boundary?
100
The thickest layer.
What is the mantle?
100
Stress that creates reverse fault.
What is compression?
100
Thing that makes volcanos explode.
What is pressure?
100
Instrument for measuring seismic waves.
What is a seismograph?
200
Person who came up with the theory of Pangaea.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
200
The only true liquid layer.
What is the Outer Core?
200
Type of stress that creates a strike-slip fault.
What is shear?
200
The thin lava.
What is MAFIC?
200
The center of an earthquake on the surface.
What is the epicenter?
300
Plate boundary that creates a mountain.
What is a convergent boundary?
300
The thinest layer.
What is the crust?
300
Movement on either side of the fault.
What is an earthquake?
300
Volcano with only quiet eruption.
What is shield volcano?
300
Waves that arrive at a place first.
What are P waves?
400
Types of crust involved when a convergent boundary makes a mountain.
What is Continental-Continental?
400
The order of layers. (Outer to Inner)
What is Crust, Mantle, Outer Core, and Inner Core?
400
The San Andreas fault is what type of fault?
What is a strike-slip fault?
400
Volcano with only FELSIC lava.
What is Cinder Cone volcano?
400
Waves that arrive second at a place.
What are S waves?
500
Boundary where earthquakes are common in California.
What is a transform boundary?
500
Magnetic layer
What is the Inner Core.
500
Type of stress that creates a normal fault.
What is tension?
500
Volcano with both types of eruption: quiet and eruption.
What is a Composite volcano?
500
The center of an earthquake under the crust.
What is the focus?
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