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Alfred Wegener
What is the name of the person responsible for creating the Continental Drift Theory?
100
Primary waves, fast moving, push-pull motion
What are P waves?
100
Secondary waves, move through solids, side to side
What are S waves
100
A person who studies earthquakes.
Who is a seismologist?
100
Surface waves, very destructive, move all over.
What are L waves
200
When one plate drives (or is forced) beneath another plate it is called ___ zone.
What is a subduction zone?
200
Machine used to record and measure earthquakes.
What is a seismograph/
200
Convergent boundaries are ones that ____
What is move together?
200
Waves of energy released by earthquakes.
What are seismic waves?
200
Divergent boundries are ones that ___
What is move apart?
300
Earthquakes start beneath the surface and that is called the ___ of the earthquake. On the surface directly above the focus is called the ___.
What is the focus and epicenter?
300
When two CONTINENTIAL plates collide this happens.
What is mountains form?
300
Molten rock below the surface is called ___.
What is magma?
300
This is released in an earthquake.
What is energy?
300
Molen rock above the surface is called ___.
What is lava?
400
Name the volcano: a. erupting now b. sleeping, had erupted recently c. hasn't erupted in modern history
What are a. active, b. dormant, c. extinct volcanoes?
400
A way to measure the released energy from an earthquake is called ___.
What is Moment magnitude.
400
A way of measuring earthquake damage that wasn't very acurate is called ___.
What is Mercalli?
400
Harry Hess's theory is different from Wegener's theory because ___.
What is being able to explain HOW the plates moved?
400
A way to measure earthquake strength until recently is called ___.
What is Richter?
500
1. Fit of the continents 2. Fossil evidence 3. Rocks and mountains 4. Climate evidence
What evidence did Alfred Wegener use as evidence to support the Continental Drift Theory?
500
A volcano shape that is a Composite volcano is made of ___.
What is ash, cinder, and lava mixed in?
500
A Volcano shape that is Cinder Cone is made of ___.
What is chunks of cinder?
500
Explain why an oceanic plate will sink when it collides with a continental plate.
What is the oceanic plate is more dense and will sink below the less dense continental plate?
500
A volcano shape that is descrived as Shield Volcano is made of ___.
What is smooth flowing lava?
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