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The father of Continental Drift Theory
Who is Alfred Wegener
The 3 main layers of the Earth.
What is the Crust, Mantle, and Core.
The three types of tectonic plate boundaries.
What are Convergent, Divergent, and Transform
The two main types of earthquake waves
What are P and S Waves
The type of boundary between the South American Plate and the Nazca Plate
What is Convergent (Subduction Zone)
The hypothesis that states our continents broke from one large landmass and slowly drifted apart.
What is Continental Drift?
The type of rock that makes up oceanic crust
What is Basalt
Land formation that occurs when two continental crusts converge.
What are Mountains
The minimum number of seismograph stations needed to find the epicenter of an earthquake
A natural disaster that can occur if an earthquake occurs underwater
What is a Tsunami
Another name for the Asthenosphere
What is the Plastic Mantle
Formation that occurs at a divergent boundary in the Earth's oceans.
What is a Mid-Ocean Ridge
What we call the strength of an earthquake
What is Magnitude
You have a rock with a volume of 15cm3 and a mass of 45 g. What is its density?
What is 3 g/cm3
Pieces of the Lithosphere that slide along the Asthenosphere.
What are Tectonic Plates
The specific layer responsible for the magnetic field.
What is the Outer Core.
During this process, gravity pulls one edge of a plate down into the mantle.
What is Subduction.
The arrival time of an earthquake if the S wave hit at 11:05:20 and the P wave hit at 10:58:00
What is 07:20
Another name for P (Primary) waves
What are Compression Waves
The 3 pieces of evidence that supported Alfred Wegener's continental drift hypothesis.
What are matching fossils, landforms, climates, glacial striations, coal seams, deserts, mountains, rocks, etc.
The layer that includes the rigid upper portion of the mantle and the crust.
What is the Lithosphere
This is the mechanism behind plates' movement.
What is Convection
The evidence for Earth's liquid outer core
What is S waves do not pass through liquids
The direction magnetic minerals are pointing based on the flipping of the magnetic field that form mirroring "stripes" on either side of a mid-ocean ridge
What is Magnetic Polarity