Plates
Shaking
Flowing
Drifting
Mixed Bag of Rocks
100
The theory of movement of large sections of the Earth's crust.
What is plate tectonics?
100
A sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that can cause trembling and shaking.
What are earthquakes
100
mountains that form when lava, ash, rocks, and melted rock material piles up and hardens
What are volcanos
100
The theory that the continents used be joined as one giant landmass and that they are moving and continue to move.
What is the theory of continental drift
100
Rocks that are made up of visible fragments of other types of rock, through a process of compaction and cementation
What are sedimentary rocks
200
The places where the plates are divided.
What are plate boundaries?
200
A type of energy wave that is release during an earthquake.
What is a seismic wave?
200
Three types of volcanoes.
What are shield, cinder cones, and composite cones.
200
The name of the supercontinent that existed 250 million years ago.
What is Pangea
200
The 4 main layers of the Earth
What are the inner core, outer core, mantle, crust
300
Transform, convergent, divergent.
What are the main types of pate boundaries?
300
A unit of measurement that tells how powerful an earthquake is.
What is the richter scale.
300
The Hawaiian Islands
What are the largest volcanoes on Earth
300
The scientist who proposed the theory of continental drift
who is Alfred Wegener
300
A type of plate boundary where the plates slide against each other.
What is a transform boundary
400
Earthquakes, mountains, volcanic action.
What happens as a result of plate movement?
400
The place where an earthquake begins deep inside the Earth.
What is the focus.
400
A volcano that has not erupted in a very long time.
What is a dormant volcano
400
The transfer of heat within the Earth's mantle that causes the movement of the plates.
what are convection currents
400
The crack in the Earth's crust that runs through California and is the cause of many earthquakes.
What is the San Andreas Fault
500
The border around the rim of the Pacific plate which is very active with volcanos and earthquakes.
What is the Ring of Fire?
500
The place on the Earth's surface directly above the spot where the earthquake begins.
What is the epicenter
500
A volcano that has not erupted since the start of recorded history
What is an extinct volcano
500
The three pieces of evidence for continental drift.
What are: the continents fit together like puzzle pieces, fossils of the same animals are found on the edges of different continents, fossils of warm climate plants and animals are found on Antarctica.
500
The longest recorded amount of time that 2 of the sugar cube buildings were able to withstand a powerful earthquake
What is 45 seconds
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