Volcanoes
A side effect of Volcanic Eruptions is that it releases gas into this, from the greek word for vapor
What is Atmosphere?
What is a transform boundary?
Two plates moving toward each other are known as these types of boundaries.
What are convergent boundaries?
Alfred Wegener proposed that all continents emerged from a super continent which he called this.
What is Pangaea?
Just like the best pizzas, this layer of earth is the thinnest
What is crust?
A volcano that hasn't erupted in the last 50 years is said to be this.
What is Dormant?
The most destructive types of waves in an earthquake are these type of waves, also known as Rayleigh waves.
What are L-Waves?
Mid-ocean ridges occur when divergent boundaries allow this to move up from the mantle.
What is magma?
Wegener first had the idea when he noticed that the continents fit together like this toy, used recreationally.
What are Jigsaws?
Lava from volcanoes emerges from this layer of the earth
What is the Mantle?
Pressure and hot spots in the earth's mantle occur due to this, the phenomenon that causes movement of magma.
What are convection currents?
The fastest moving waves in an earthquake are this letter waves, also known as compression waves.
What are P-waves?
The movement of tectonic plates can cause this natural disaster, from the Japanese for Harbour Wave.
What are Tsunamis?
Glossopteris was a fern that was found across America, South Africa, Antarctica and this content, providing evidence we were all one continent.
What is Australia?
This layer of the earth is the hottest, predicted to be 10000 degrees.
What is the inner core?
A volcano is considered extinct if it hasn't erupted if it hasn't erupted in this many years.
What is 10000?
The point at which the all the waves in an earthquake originate from in the earth is called this.
What is the focus?
When a dense oceanic plate slides underneath a less dense continental plate, it's called this process.
What is subduction?
When the supercontinent first broke apart, it broke into these two continents.
What are Gondwana and Laurasia?
All of earth's water is found in this.
What is Hydrosphere?
Volcanoes commonly occur along plate boundaries, such as this one, around the rim of the pacific ocean
What is the Ring of Fire?
Every step of 1 up the richter scale increases by a factor of this.
What is 10?
The Indo-Australian Tectonic plate will move this distance in the next 100 years.
What is 3-5 metres?
Of all the tectonic plates, there are small microplates, eight secondary plates and this many primary tectonic plates. Double points if you can name them all!
What is Seven?
African, Antarctic, Eurasian, Indo-Australian, North American, Pacific, South American
This word describing something which involves the part of the earth's crust comes from the greek words for stone and globe.
What is the Lithosphere?