PLATE TECTONICS
Rock Cycle
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
MISCELLANEOUS
100
The names of the four layers of the earth.
What is inner core, outer core, mantle and crust
100
The breakdown of rock into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
100
Earthquakes are formed by this type of plate boundary.
What is Transform?
100
Volcanoes are divided into these three major categories.
What are shield, cinder cone, and composite.
100
Name of the landmass before the continents drifted apart.
What is pangaea?
200
Causes the plates to move.
What are convection currents
200
This type of rock is formed from magma that has cooled off.
What is Igneous Rock.
200
This type of scientist predicts earthquakes.
What are Seismologists
200
Volcanoes are found mostly at these plate boundaries.
What are convergent boundaries.
200
This can occur at any plate boundary to release stress.
What is an earthquake?
300
The Appalachian and Himalayan Mountains were formed by which type of boundary?
What is convergent.
300
This Type of rock is formed from Compaction and weathering.
What is Sedimentary rock.
300
The machine used to measure earthquakes is called this.
What is a seismograph.
300
In Hawaii, this type of volcano has been oozing lava since the 1700's
What is the shield volcano Mauna Loa.
300
Other than Convergent Faults, Shield volcanoes can from from this type of fault.
What are divergent faults.
400
This is created when a oceanic plate collides with a continental plate.
What is a subduction zone.
400
Diamonds are found in this type of rock.
What is metamorphic rock.
400
These waves shake the earth up and down, left and right, forwards and backwards.
What are P, S, and surface waves.
400
Mount Vesuvius is this type of volcano.
What is a cinder cone volcano.
400
Around the pacific plate, there is a ring of volcanoes referred to as this.
What is the ring of fire.
500
This is a fault that runs all the way down California.
San Andreas Fault
500
This igneous rock is formed from cinder cone volcano eruptions and can float on water.
What is Pumice .
500
This location is deep underground where scientists say an earthquake starts.
Focus. (epicenter is above the focus on the surface)
500
This Layer of the earth is where all the magma from volcanoes comes from.
What is the asthenosphere
500
This dinosaur is one of the largest pieces of evidence for Pangaea.
What is Mesosaurus.
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