Volcanoes
Plate Tectonics
Sea-floor Spreading
Landforms
Earth's Interior
100
The type of volcano that has gentle slopes.
What is a shield volcano
100
This landform will form at divergent boundaries on either side of a rift valley.
What is a ridge?
100
The middle feature where sea-floor spreading is happening. This can also happen on land like in Africa.
What is a rift valley.
100
This landform is created where two oceanic plates collide.
What is a chain of volcanic islands?
100
The inner most layer of the earth made of solid iron and nickel.
What is Inner Core?
200
The type of volcanic landform that forms at O-C Convergent boundaries.
What is a volcanic mountain range?
200
The scientist who developed the theory of Plate Tectonics.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
200
The landform created because magma is rising to the surface and turning into rock.
What is mid-ocean ridge?
200
The landform created when two continental plates collide.
What is mountains.
200
This layer is the thinnest layer of the earth that is made of hard-brittle rock.
What is the crust?
300
The type boundary that created the Yellowstone Super-Volcano and Hawaii.
What is NOT A BOUNDARY? Hotspot!!
300
The type of boundary that makes up the San Andreas Fault.
What is a transform boundary?
300
The type of boundary where sea-floor spreading happens.
What is a divergent boundary?
300
The landform created when an oceanic and continental plate collide. It will appear on the continental side of the collision.
What is volcanic mountain range?
300
This is the layer where convection cells are able to move.
What is the mantle?
400
Dutch Harbor is part of this Volcanic Island Chain.
What are the Aleutian Islands?
400
The large super-continent that used to be on Earth.
What is Pangaea?
400
The relative age of mid-ocean ridges compared to trenches.
What is younger?
400
The landform created when an oceanic plate sinks under another plate.
What is a trench?
400
This layer is the only liquid layer.
What is the outer core?
500
The Cascade volcanic mountain range, located in Oregon and Washington is created from this plate colliding with the North American Plate.
What is the Juan de Fuca plate?
500
The name of the active earthquake and volcano zone surrounding the Pacific Plate.
What is the Ring of Fire?
500
The country that is being "cut" in half because of sea-floor spreading.
What is Iceland?
500
The reason that oceanic plates will always subduct.
What is density?
500
This layer is the thickest.
What is the mantle?
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