Plate Boundaries
"The portion of the earth's crust that primarily contains granite, is less dense than oceanic crust, and is 20-50 km thick."
Continental Crust
"A type of fault where rocks on either side move past each other sideways with little up or down motion."
Strike-Slip Fault
"The gradual movement of the continents across the earth's surface through geological time."
Continental Drift
"The study of earthquakes and seismic waves."
Seismology
What is the name of the Fault bordering California?
The Sans Andreas Fault
During Oceanic / Continental Convergence what subducts?
A.) They clash and create Folded Mountains
B.) Magma Rises
C.) Continental, the Light Crust subducts
D.) Oceanic, the Light Crust subducts
E.) Continental, the Denser Crust subducts
F.) Oceanic, the Denser Crust subducts
F.) Oceanic, the Denser Crust subducts
"A break in the earth's crust."
A Fault
"A 12 point scale developed to evaluate earthquake intensity based on the amount of damage to various structures."
Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale
"The point beneath Earth's surface where rock breaks under stress and causes an earthquake."
A Focus
Sea Floor Spreading at the Mid-Ocean Rift adds new oceanic crust to the ocean floor at a rate of?
A.) 44052.9315896-220264.657948 Picometers per Year
B.) 2-10 Meters per Year
C.) 2-10 Inches per Year
D.) 2-10 Centimeters per Year
A.) 44052.9315896-220264.657948 Picometers per Year,
Or
D.) 2-10 Centimeters per Year
What do Continental/Continental Plate Convergences create?
A.) Fault-Block Mountains
B.) Folded Mountains
C.) Mid-Ocean Rifts
D.) Volcanoes
B.) Folded Mountains
Define a Normal Fault?
A type of fault where the hanging wall slides downward; caused by tension in the crust.
Define Amplitude?
The height of a wave's crest
Define an L-Wave?
"waves that travel along Earth's outer layer (mostly up and down motion)."
What's the location of a Real World Example of a Rift Valley?
N//A
What do Continental/Continental Plate Divergences create?
A.) Fault-Block Mountains
B.) Folded Mountains
C.) Mid-Ocean Rifts
D.) Volcanoes
A.) Fault-Block Mountains
"A type of fault where the hanging wall slides upward; caused by ----------- in the crust."
Compression or an Extension
Compression
What Sphere of the earth do Tectonic Plates rest on top of?
A.) The Lithosphere
B.) The Outer Core
C.) The Asthenosphere
D.) The Inner Mantle
E.) The Inner Core
C.) The Asthenosphere
Which scale rates an earthquake's magnitude based on the size of its seismic waves?
A.) The Richter Scale
B.) The Moment Magnitude Scale
C.) The Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale
A.) The Richter Scale
Real World Example of a Hot Spot on Earth?
A.) Olympus Mons
B.) The Hawaiian Volcano Kilauea
C.) Io's Volcanic Chain
D.) Mons Rümker
E.) Mons Hansteen
B.) The Hawaiian Volcano Kilauea
The Cause of Plate movement?
A.) Seismic wave
B.) Earthquakes
C.) Pangea
D.) Convection Currents
D.) Convection Currents
Draw a Tectonic Plate, and Label the Hanging Wall
N//A
The Name of the original Proprietor of "Pangea The Super Continent"
Alfred Wegener
How many Points are used for the Modified Mercalli Scale?
12
The 2012 Sanriku earthquake in Kamaishi, Japan had a magnitude of?
A.) 9.0
B.) 7.3
C.) 7.7
D.)8.6
B.) 7.3