Plate Boundaries
Theories
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Rocks and Minerals
100
Plate boundary that only creates earthquakes
What is a transform boundary?
100
The driving mechanism of plate tectonics.
What is mantle convection?
100
Fastest type of waves
What is p-waves?
100
Molten rock above earth's surface
What is lava?
100
Process that leads to metamorphic rocks
What is heat and pressure?
200
Creates volcanic islands, a trench, and deep earthquakes
What is an oceanic-oceanic convergent boundary?
200
Created the theory of continental drift.
Who is Wegener?
200
Wiggles from earthquake shaking
What is a seismogram?
200
Types of plate boundaries that cause volcanoes
What is convergent and divergent?
200
Type of rocks that can contain fossils.
What is sedimentary?
300
Plate boundary that only creates very high mountains and earthquakes.
What is a continental-continental convergent boundary?
300
Used to find mid-ocean ridges.
What is sonar?
300
Earthquake scale used most often.
What is the Richter Scale?
300
Volcano that always erupts explosively
What is a cinder cone?
300
2 physical properties used to identify minerals.
What is cleavage, color, streak, luster, hardness, crystal form, taste, acid reaction.
400
Plate boundary that creates new seafloor.
What is an oceanic divergent boundary?
400
Suggested that the earth wasn't expanding, and that the crust was being recycled.
Who is Harry Hess?
400
Earthquake scale based on opinions.
What is the Mercalli Scale?
400
Type of volcano that erupts explosively and calmly.
What is a composite volcano?
400
3 defining characteristics of minerals
What is solid, inorganic, naturally occurring, crystalline, chemical composition?
500
Creates volcanoes, deep earthquakes, and mountains.
What is a continental-oceanic convergent boundary?
500
3 lines of evidence for continental drift
What is fossils, rocks, and climate?
500
Where an earthquake actually happened
What is the focus?
500
Scientists that study volcanoes
What is a volcanologist?
500
3 examples of minerals
What is minerals?
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