Layers of the Earth
Plate Tectonics
Deformations
Volcanoes
Earthquakes (EQ)
100
These are the chemical layers of the Earth.
What are Crust, Mantle, and Core?
100
A meteorologist discovered continental drift.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
100
These are the two types of mountains.
What are volcanic and non-volcanic mountains?
100
Magma and Lave are an example of this.
What is molten rock?
100
This kind of EQ happens in New Zealand 20,000 times a year.
What is transform EQ?
200
This is the upper physical layer of the Earth.
What is the lithosphere?
200
This crust is thinner yet denser.
What is the oceanic crust?
200
Mountains are formed by this kind of plate boundary.
What is convergent?
200
These are the three types of Volcanos we studied.
What are composite, shield, and cinder cone?
200
The most destructive type of EQ is this.
what are Subduction Zone Earthquakes?
300
These are the middle physical layers of the Earth.
What are the asthenosphere and mesosphere?
300
These are four types of plate boundaries.
What are transform, divergent, convergent, and subduction zone?
300
Rift valleys and trenches are formed by this type of plate boundary.
What is divergent?
300
What is the result of Hot spots?
300
This type of EQ can be Shallow or Deep.
What is a convergent EQ?
400
She discovered the core of the Earth by using seismology waves.
Who is Igna Lahman?
400
New oceanic crust is added with this process.
What is sea-floor spreading?
400
This area of massive volcanic activities is called.
What is the ring of fire?
400
This can block sun radiation reducing global temperatures.
What is volcanic ash?
400
This city had an EQ that destroyed 28,000 buildings and killed 3,000 people.
What is the EQ in San Francisco in 1906?
500
This is responsible for blocking the sun's solar wind.
What is the magnetosphere?
500
This was the evidence that proved seafloor-spreading.
What are magnetic stripes of normal and reversed polarity in the seafloor?
500
What is a Subduction zone plate boundary?
500
Mt. Vesuvius destroyed this city in 79AD.
What is Pompeii?
500
Tsunamis are formed by this type of EQ.
What is a Subduction zone EQ?