Geosphere/Geodynamics
Earthquakes
Seafloor/Volcano
Plate Tectonics
100
What method that studies the geosphere is based on calculations and deductions?
INDIRECT METHOD
100
TRUE/FALSE: Earthquakes are slow movements of the Earth's surface.
FALSE: sudden
100
MAGMA
100
TRUE/FALSE: Plate tectonics theory divides the lithosphere into lithospheric plates which are continuous in movement.
TRUE
200
What is the rocky, thin, solid outer layer of the Earth's structure?
CRUST
200
What are the two types of seismic waves?
P and S WAVES
200
What is the exit point of the volcano?
CRATER
200
What type of plate boundary is this?
TRANSFORM or CONSERVATIVE
300
What did Alfred Wegener call the supercontinent that he believed today's continents are made up of from breaking up and shifting?
PANGAEA
300
What is the instrument used to measure earthquakes and used to record land movement?
SEISMOGRAPH
300
Seafloor spreading theory says that new crust is formed at the ________ ________ when new material rises and is pushed to the side.
OCEANIC RIDGES
300
What forms when one oceanic plate collides (CONVERGENT BOUNDARIES) with one continental plate?
COASTAL MOUNTAIN RANGES