Earthquakes
In the world, this is where most earthquakes happen
The Ring of Fire
This state is mostly made of Volcanos.
Hawaii
Smooth / round
The Earths Crust is made of these which are constantly moving....hold on!
Plate Techtonics
In this year, San Francisco’s most infamous Earthquake occured.
1906
The oldest fossils are this many years old.
3 Billion
The type of FAULT occurs when two plate techtonics slide past eachother.
Strike-Slip
This type of volcano is more likely to errupt fast flowing, thin lava. (Draw if it is helpful)
A low, curved, “rotated “c” shaped volcano
When a plant grows and breaks apart surroundings.
Root Wedging
This layer of the earth is the hottest.
Inner Core
The recent Earthquake in Alaska reached this magnitude.
7.0
Fossils can help identify the size, weight and this of an extint species.
Environment
This type of fault occurs when plate techtonics is pushed up past another plate techtonic.
Thrust Fault
Before it comes out of the earth, what is lava referred as?
Magma
For many years, erosion and root wedging hid ancient temples in this South American civilization.
Machu Picchu
This layer of the Earth can reach degrees between 1,600-7,000.
Mantel
In the year 2011, the longest ever recorded earthquake ocurred in Japan lasting this amount of time.
6 minutes
This chemical can turns trees to fossils.
Silica
This famous fault runs through Bodega Bay.
San Andreas Fault
Another term for a volcano that is not dead, but not active.
Dormant
This is a rapid form of erosion in which large pieces of mud and rocks breakaway from their original location.
Landslides
This metal prodominate makes up the center of the earth.
Iron
Charles ___________ invented this machine to measure the magnitude (size) of an earthquake.
Rictor Scale
Fossils helped scientist discover that dinosaurs and these are related.
Birds
This is the point that sits on the Earth’s Crust directly above the Earthquakes focus.
Epicenter
In the year 76AD, Mt. Vesuvius erupted, killing, but amazingly preserving, the people in a frozen, ashen state in this city.
Pompeii
These buildings were notorious for needing repairs due to erosion on the CA coast.
Presidios
Like an egg, the Earth’s top most section makes up THIS percent of the Earth’s radius (thickness).
2%
In 1964, Alaska was hit by a 9.1 earthquake lasting 4-5 minutes and the effects were felt as far as this state.
Texas
Archeopteryx means ancient _____________.
Winged one.