Volcanoes
Plate Tectonics
Chile: 1960
Inside Earth
Earthquakes
100
This is the name for magma when it comes out of the earth.
What is lava?
100
This phrase refers to the theory that the earth is divided into moving plates in the crust.
What is plate tectonics?
100
The earthquake in Chile is remembered because of this.
What is it is the biggest earthquake ever recorded?
100
The earth's outermost layer.
What is the crust?
100
True or False: We can predict when earthquakes are going to happen.
FALSE.
200
This word describes what blows out of the top of a composite volcano.
What is ash?
200
These are the three types of plate boundaries that occur.
What are colliding, spreading and sliding boundaries?
200
This after effect of the Chilean earthquake touched Japan, California and even the Phillipines.
What is a tsunami?
200
The layer that the earth's plates are in.
What is the crust?
200
The boundary closest to us in California is this kind of boundary.
What is a sliding boundary.
300
This combined with the Mt. Vesuvius ash cloud to cover and entomb the victims of the volcano.
What is rain?
300
At this type of boundary earthquakes might happen or rivers might move and change their path.
What is a sliding boundary?
300
around 7 o'clock at night
What is the time the earthquake happened?
300
This is the layer that subducting plates melt into, forming magma.
What is the mantle.
300
This word describes the area where cracks in the earth show separations between plates.
What is fault?
400
These are the three main types of volcanoes.
What are composite, shield and cinder cone
400
Trenches, canyons and plateaus may form at this type of plate boundary.
What is a spreading boundary?
400
The number of volcanoes - old and new added together - that erupted after the Chilean earthquake in 1960.
What is 9?
400
This is the plastic-like layer of earth that the plates float and move in.
What is the lithosphere?
400
This word means the place where an earthquake started.
What is epicenter?
500
Hawaii was formed from volcanoes of this type.
What are hot spot volcanoes?
500
Composite earthquakes, volcanoes and new mountain ranges may form at this type of plate boundary.
What is a colliding boundary?
500
The cause of the Chilean earthquake
What is the Nazca plate subducting under the South American plate?
500
This is the word that explains how heat moves inside the earth- cool material falling and melting, hot material rising and expanding.
What is convection?
500
These waves are the fastest moving waves from an earthquake, also known as compression waves.
What are p-waves?
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