Plate Tectonics
Earth Layers
Faults/Stress
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
100
The force that drives the plates
What are convection currents?
100
The upmost layer of the earth
What is the crust?
100
The type of fault caused by compression
What is a reverse fault?
100
The first waves to arrive at a seismic recording station
What are P waves?
100
The type of volcano with a gradual slope
What is a shield volcano?
200
The man who came up with the idea of continental drift
Who is Alfred Wegener?
200
The layer that is made of solid iron and nickel
What is the inner core?
200
The type of stress that causes a reverse fault
What is tension?
200
The device used to measure earthquake force
What is a richter scale?
200
The type of volcano made by falling lava.
What is a cinder cone volcano?
300
The two plates that are splitting Iceland in half
What are the Eurasian and North American plates?
300
The layer above the outer core and below the crust
What is the mantle?
300
The type of stress that causes a strike slip fault
What is sheer?
300
The waves in an earthquake that can't pass through water
What are S waves
300
The type of volcano composed of volcanic rock
What is A composite volcano?
400
The landform made by a continental-continental convergent boundary
What are mountains?
400
The layer composed of liquid iron and nickel
What is the outer core?
400
The wall above the fault line
What is the hanging wall?
400
The name of the measurement used to measure earthquake force
What is magnitude?
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