Latitude and Longitude
Plate Boundaries
Volcanoes
Bathymetric Maps
Miscellaneous
100
This is the name of the line at 0 degrees latitude.
What is the equator?
100
These are the three types of plate boundaries.
What are divergent, convergent, and transform?
100
These are the two main types of volcanoes.
What are shield volcanoes and stratovolcanoes (aka composite volcanoes)?
100
This is what a bathymetric map shows that a regular map does not.
What is the ocean floor?
100
This is the difference between magma and lava.
What is magma is underground and lava is on the surface?
200
This is the name of the line at 0 degrees longitude.
What is the prime meridian?
200
This is the process when an oceanic plate goes underneath another plate.
What is subduction?
200
Basalt is low in silica and is a runny type of lava. These types of volcanoes are mostly made of basalt.
What are shield volcanoes?
200
These geologic features are found where two oceanic plates are spreading apart.
What is a mid-ocean ridge? What is a rise?
200
This is the difference between a mid-ocean ridge and a rise.
What is a rise has more gentle slopes?
300
This city is located at approximately 40 degrees north and 75 degrees west.
What is Philadelphia?
300
The Himalayan Mountains are an example of this type of plate boundary.
What is a convergent plate boundary?
300
Because of the large number of volcanoes located around it, the "Ring of Fire" is located around this plate
What is the Pacific Plate?
300
These geologic features are found where an oceanic plate is subducting underneath another plate.
What are trenches?
300
This is the name of the area where magma is stored beneath a volcano.
What is a magma chamber?
400
This country is at the same line of latitude as Miami.
What are the Bahamas?
400
The Eurasian Plate and African Plate are slowly colliding. This might be the future for the Mediterranean Sea.
What is it might disappear?
400
This is the part of the volcano which is an opening to the surface.
What is a vent?
400
We live on the border of these two plates.
What is the Pacific Plate and the American Plate?
400
This is the planet that is home to the largest volcano in our Solar System.
What is Mars with Olympus Mons?
500
This is the city in which the prime meridian passes through.
What is Greenwich?
500
What are three examples of geologic evidence that can help you locate plate boundaries?
What are trenches, mid-ocean ridges, rises, volcanoes, earthquakes, and/or mountain ranges?
500
Hawaii is not located on a plate boundary. This is the geologic reason why the Hawaiian Islands formed.
What is a hot spot?
500
This country is a place where the Mid-Atlantic Ridge has enough elevation to extend above sea level.
What is Iceland?
500
This is the name of the deepest part of the world's ocean.
What is the Marianas Trench?
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