Plate Tectonics
Layers of the Earth
Faults/Stresses
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
100
The man who first thought that there are plate tectonics.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
100
Hottest layer of the earth.
What is the inner core?
100
Fault that both sides move side ways past each other.
What is strike-slip fault?
100
Volcano that is composed of cinder and lava.
What is composite volcanoes?
100
Point called where the earthquake begins.
What is focus?
200
The force that moves plates.
What is convection?
200
Only liquid layer.
What is outer core?
200
Type of fault where hanging wall slides upwards.
What is reverse fault?
200
Volcano that gently slopes.
What are shield volcanoes?
200
Point above ground where the earthquake hits the hardest.
What is epicenter?
300
Alfred's theory of the land before.
What is Pangaea?
300
Also known as "Giant Mixing Bowl".
What is the mantle?
300
The type of fault where the hanging wall slides downward.
What is normal fault?
300
Volcano that has layers of cinder.
What is cinder cone volcano.
300
The two different types of waves from the earthquake.
What are Primary and Secondary waves?
400
Name of the edge of plates
What are Plate boundaries?
400
It is the coolest earth layer.
What is the crust?
400
Name the three types of stresses.
What is shearing, tension, and compression?
400
The two different types of lava.
What is MAFIC and FELSIC?
400
Wave that is like an accordion.
What are Primary Waves?
500
Something that happens at the edge of a plate boundary.
What are landforms?
500
Part of the crust and mantle.
What is lithosphere?
500
Give an example of what tension creates (landform).
What is normal fault?
500
Types of eruptions (sounds)
What is quiet and explosive?
500
Wave that moves up and down in a snake like motion.
What is Primary Wave?
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