Earth
Volcanology
Seismic Waves &
Earthquakes
Earthquakes
Plate Tectonics
Faults
100
The outer, rigid layer of the Earth
What is the lithosphere?
100
Consists of melt, gas, and crystals
What is magma?
100
Which seismic waves cause the most destruction?
What are the surface waves?
100
Features that form at an oceanic-continental convergent boundary
What are trenches and volcanoes?
100
The type of fault that forms at subduction zones
What is a reverse fault?
200
The composition of the asthenosphere.
What is mantle?
200
The addition of water
What is the type of melting that occurs at oceanic-continental and oceanic-oceanic convergent boundaries?
200
The seismic wave with particle motions perpendicular to the direction the wave is moving
What are S-waves?
200
Feature that forms at a continental-continental convergent boundary
Mountains
200
This type of fault:
What is a strike slip fault?
300
A mechanical layer of the Earth that behaves as a liquid.
What is the outer core?
300
The three primary types of volcanic edifices
What are scoria cones, stratovolcanoes, and shield volcanoes?
300
A phenomena that causes buildings to sway intensely.
What is resonance?
300
A type of plate boundary that results in rift valleys
What is a continental-continental divergent boundary?
300
This type of fault:
his type of fault:
his type of fault:
What is a normal fault?
400
The composition of the lithosphere.
What is the crust and outermost mantle?
400
Plate boundary with the most viscous magma
What is oceanic-continental convergent
400
The location on the surface of the Earth directly above the fault rupture.
What is the epicenter?
400
A type of plate boundary where two lithospheric plates move away from one another.
What is a divergent boundary?
400
This type of fault:
What is a reverse fault?
500
0 to 180 million years.
Hint: what on Earth is 180 million years old but no older?
Hint: what on Earth is 180 million years old but no older?
What is the range of ages of the oceanic lithosphere?
500
A magmatic property that determines the explosiveness of an eruption
What is the silica content (also the amt of trapped gas)?
500
A phenomenon that causes loose, wet sediment not to be act like a solid and instead to have buildings and other objects sink into the ground.
Liquefaction
500
The reason that magnetic striping on the seafloor is evidence of plate tectonics
What is the fact that the magnetic stripes are a mirror image on either side of the ridge, implying that the entire ocean floor was created at the MOR?
500
The type of faults that form at a rift valley
What are normal faults?