Volcanoes
Earthquakes/Seismic Waves
Layers of the Earth
Christmas
Plate Tectonics
100

This volcano has a gentle slope, is nonexplosive, and the lava is runny and spreads over a wide area.

What is a shield volcano?
100
These waves are also known as primary or pressure waves.
What is P Waves?
100
This is the hottest part of the Earth and is considered a hot solid iron ball.
What is the inner core?
100

What is the biggest Christmas shopping day called?

What is Black Friday?

100
Convergent, Divergent, and Transform are types of this.
What are tectonic plate boundaries?
200

What is the name of the volcano that erupted in Washington state in 1980, to this day it is the most studied volcano. 

What is Mount st. Helens?

200

These waves only travel through solids and cannot travel through liquids.

What are S waves?
200
This is the outer layer of Earth and is about 50 km thick.
What is the crust?
200

In the united states, people use this kind of tree to decorate. 

What is an evergreen tree?

200

This is the scientist who thought of Pangaea (the idea of all the continents being once joined in a single huge continent).

Bonus: The hypothesis of continents once formed a single landmass, broke up, and drifted to their present locations. +100

Who is Alfred Wegener?


Bonus: What is the Continental Drift?

300

Where are the most active volcano's found? 

What is ring of fire?

300

These are the first waves of an earthquake to be detected and are the fastest type of seismic waves.

What are P Waves?
300
This is made up of iron and nickel and has a liquid molten rock formation.
What is the outer core?
300

In the movie Home Alone, who is the main character? 

Bonus 100 what is the actors name 

What is Kevin McCallahan?


Bonus: What is Macaulay Culkin?

300

The process by which new oceanic lithosphere forms as magma rises toward the surface and solidifies.

What is Sea Floor Spreading?
400

This is a body of molten rock deep underground that feeds a volcano.

What is the Magma Chamber?
400

These are the slowest waves, but they do the most damage and destruction; often associated with earthquakes.

What are Surface Waves?
400
This is the widest section of Earth and contains convection currents.
What is the mantle?
400

In the movie the Grinch who stole Christmas, how many times smaller was the Grinch's heart? 

Bonus: The Grinch's heart grows when he returns the gifts he stole. How many times does it grow? 

What is two times smaller? 

Bonus: What is three times bigger?

400

This is a chain of underwater mountains that runs through the center of the Atlantic Ocean and where sea floor spreading takes place.

What is the Mid-Ocean Ridge?
500

This is how lava flows and affects the surface of lava in different ways.


Bonus: This is a type of lava that has a high viscosity and flows slowly (wax and glassy). +100

What is Viscosity?



Bonus: Pahoehoe

500

When locating an earthquake, this is the point on the Earth's surface directly above an earthquake's starting point.

Bonus: This is the point inside the Earth where an earthquake begins. +100
What is the epicenter?


Bonus: What is the focus point?

500

This layer of the mantle is very rocky and solid and is the upper layer (closest to the crust).

What is the Lithosphere?
500

In the song Twelve Days of Christmas, what is given on the 5th day?


 

What is five golden rings? 

500

When a plate with oceanic crust collides with a plate with continental crust, and the oceanic crust sinks into the asthenosphere.

What is a subduction zone?
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