Plate Tectonics
Layers of the Earth
Faults/Stress
Volcanos
Earthquakes
100
The thickest layer.
What is the mantle?
100
The type of stress that pulls the crust apart.
What is tension?
100
Volcano type that is the most explosive.
What is Cinder cone?
100
waves that go though liquid.
What is p waves?
200
Force that causes the plates to move.
What is convection?
200
The layer that is liquid.
What is the outer core?
200
The type of stress that causes the crust to be pushed together.
What is Compression?
200
Slow and runny lava.
What is Mafic.
200
Place under the crust where the Earthquake starts.
What is focus?
300
The thinnest layer.
What is the crust?
300
Shear cause what fault.
What is strike slip fault?
300
Least destructive volcano.
What is shield volcano?
300
Place where the earthquake is the strongest.
What is epicenter
400
Person that came up with the Pangaea theory
Who is Alfred Wegener
400
Layer that is solid iron.
What is inner core?
400
This causes a normal fault.
What is Tension?
400
Tall and skinny volcano
What is composite volcano
400
Waves that are released in a earthquake.
What is seismic waves?
500
Continent when all the continents were together.
What is Pangaea?
500
Layer that convection currents flow in.
What is mantle?
500
This causes a reverse fault.
What is Compression?
500
Mountain in the U.S that blew half of its cone off
What is Mt. St Helens
500
seismic waves that do not go through liquid.
What is s waves?
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