Mountains
Faults and Plates
Earth's structure
Earthquakes and Volcanoes
Grab Bag
100
A type of volcanic mountain that does not erupt.
What is a dome mountain?
100
Two plates come together it is known as this.
What are converging?
100
These two things tell us about the earth's interior.
What are volcanoes and geysers?
100
Point underground where the faulting in an earthquake begins.
What is focus?
100
The name Alfred Wegener gave when all the continents fit together as one big puzzle.
What is Pangea?
200
This type of mountain is formed by changing water and wind rounding out a mountain.
What is an erosion mountain?
200
When two plates move past each other by grinding together.
What is sliding?
200
The uppermost layer of the earth.
What is the crust?
200
Melted rock below the earth's surface.
What is magma?
200
Evidence that scientists say support that the continents were once all together.
What is a fossil?
300
When plates push together forcing one to bend over.
What is fold mountain?
300
Plates move away from each other and molten rock rises to fill the gap.
What is diverging?
300
When looking at a peach, the peach pit would represent this in the structure of the earth.
What is the core?
300
Point of earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake.
What is epicenter?
300
The amount that a plate moves each year.
What is 4 inches?
400
Rock is pushed upward or downward to form this type of mountain.
What is a fault-block mountain?
400
Movement at these cause earthquakes.
What is a fault?
400
The lower part of this is made of molten rock.
What is the mantle?
400
Measures the strength of an earthquake.
What is Richter scale?
400
The theory that Alfred Wegener said causes the crust to move.
What is plate tectonics?
500
The section of this mountain range in Tennessee is known as the Blue Ridge Mountains.
What is Appalachian Mountains?
500
At this fault boundary the rock is forced together causing it to break. One side moves up and the other moves down.
What is converging?
500
The solid upper mantle and core combine to form this.
What is lithosphere?
500
The area in the Pacific Ocean where many earthquakes and volcanoes occur.
What is Ring of Fire?
500
Records the strength of seismic waves.
What is a seismograph?
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