Plate Tectonics
Plate Boundaries
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Miscellaneous
100
The mass of land that was made up of all the continents was called
What is Pangea
100
The type of plate ________ formed depends on the relative motion of the plates.
What is boundary
100
Where do MOST Earthquakes occur?
What is Plate Boundaries
100
Vents in the Earth's crust which molten rock flows
What is Volcanoes
100
Mountains are formed at ________ boundaries.
What is Convergent
200
The theory of the continental drift stated that
What is the continents drifted apart
200
This boundary involves two plates moving away from each other.
What is Divergent
200
Cracks or fractures in the Earth's crust
What is Faults
200
Volcanoes are formed at which boundary(boundaries)?
What is Convergent and Divergent. (most are found at convergent boundaries)
200
________ are narrow mountains on the ocean floor
What is Mid-Ocean Ridges
300
Is the reason tectonic plates move
What is Convection
300
This boundary involves two plates moving toward each other.
What is Convergent
300
Magnitude is the measurement of how much ________is released in an Earthquake.
What is energy
300
List two ways Volcanoes change Earth's surface
What is lava flows and explosive eruptions
300
_______ _______ are found on either side of a Mid-Ocean Ridge. They are flat plains. Deepest parts of the ocean.
What is Ocean Basins
400
Earth's surface broken up into large, rigid pieces that move with respect to each other is called
What is Plate Tectonics
400
_______ is the process that occurs when one tectonic plate moves under another tectonic plate.
What is Subduction
400
What causes Earthquakes is when there is ___________ along faults.
What is movement
400
What is the difference between magma and lava?
What is magma is below Earth's surface and lava is on Earth's surface.
400
Roots growing up through a crack in a rock would be an example of ________ Weathering
What is Physical
500
This rigid layer, is broken up into pieces, and consists of the crust and upper part of the mantle
What is the Lithosphere
500
This plate boundary is involves two plates sliding past each other.
What is Transform
500
The difference between magnitude and intensity
What is magnitude is a measurement and intensity is based off of what people see, hear, and feel.
500
Name the 3 types of volcanoes
What is Shield, Cinder Cone, and Composite.
500
This layer is the one the lithosphere floats on top of, consists of the lower mantle, is "plastic-like", has the ability to bend.
What is Athenosphere
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