Continental drift
Plate Tectonics
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Misc.
100
The way all the continents fit together.
What is Continental Puzzle?
100
This permanent magnetization acquired by rock can be used to determine the location of the magnetic poles at the time the rock became magnetized.
What is Paleomagnetism?
100
The three types of volcanoes.
What is Shield, Cinder Cone, and Composite?
100
Most earthquakes occur along these edges
What is Tectonics plates
100
Hawaii is this type of volcano.
What is a shield volcano?
200
Pangea.
What is a super continent.
200
The motion of matter resulting from changes in temperature.
What is Convective flow
200
Molten rock
What is magma?
200
Scale is used to measure the strength of an earthquake
What is Richter magnitude scale
300
Three types of boundaries and how they form.
What is a Divergent, Convergent, and Transform fault boundary? Divergent- pull apart. Convergent- push together. Transform fault- slide past.
300
a mechanism that contributes to plate motion in which cool, dense oceanic crust sinks into the mantle and "pulls" the trailing lithosphere along.
What is Slab-Pull (Slap Bull)
300
Name the two materials that are explosive with magma.
What is water and silica?
300
the simplest method used to find an earthquake's epicenter
What is the S-P time Method
400
Deep ridges found along the edges of Divergent boundaries.
What is Rift valleys
400
When rocks show the opposite magnetism as the present magnetism field.
What is Reverse polarity
400
When the gases in stiff magma expand rapidly and the walls of the gas bubbles explode into tiny, glass-like slivers.
What is Volcanic ash.
400
The strength of an earthquake is determined
What is amount of ground motion.
500
When two plates oceanic underneath another plate of continental crust
What is Subduction zone
500
Masses of hotter-than-normal mantle material that ascend toward the surface, where they may lead to igneous activity.
What is Mantle Plumes
500
Large, semicircular depressions that form when the magma chamber below a volcano partially empties and causes the ground above to sink.
What is a Caldera?
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