Tectonic Plates
Seismic Waves
The Big One
Geological Features
Past Science Review
100
This quite Rocky plate boundary can be found along the California coast.
Transform fault Boundary
100
This type of seismic wave is the fastest, and its name means "first wave."
Primary Wave
100
A massive earthquake struck this city in 1989, destroying part of the Bay Bridge.
What is San Francisco?
100
This feature is created when two continental crusts collide.
Mountain
100
This space object is left behind by only the most massive and dense stars upon their death.
Black Hole
200
This fault boundary, which shares its name with a popular book series, has plates that move away from one another.
Divergent Plate boundaries.
200
This device is used by scientists to track and measure seismic waves.
Seismograph
200
A fictional earthquake that affected all of California was the crisis shown in this 2010 movie.
San Andreas
200
This geological feature is found underwater around divergent plate boundaries.
Mid-ocean Ridge
200
These stars are the coldest and smallest of all Main Sequence stars
Red Stars
300
This type of plate boundary is known to form mountains.
Convergent Plate Boundary
300
This type of seismic wave is the slowest and most destructive.
Surface Wave
300
An earthquake in this country caused a powerful tsunami that resulted in the Fukushima reactor failure in 2011.
Japan
300
This group of land features wraps along the California coast and edge of the Pacific Ocean. Krakatoaaa!
The Ring of Fire
300
This type of motion, pictured below,
dictates the day/night cycle on Earth.
Rotation
400
New crust is created at this type of plate boundary.
Divergent Plate Boundary
400
This type of wave moves through a medium through a series of collisions.
Longitudinal Wave
400
The largest earthquake ever recorded hit this South American country in 1960, hitting a magnitude of 9.6
Chile/Valdivia
400
This famous underwater geological feature is created by a subduction zone starts some 2000 meters under the surface.
What is the Mariana Trench?
400
This planet, named after the Greek primordial god of the sky, is the coldest in our solar system.
Uranus
500
This type of plate boundary is known for large earthquakes.
Transform Plate Boundary.
500
This type of seismic wave is the faster of the two Transverse waves.
Secondary Wave
500
The deadliest earthquake of all time struck this densely populated country in the year 1556.
What is China/Shaanxi
500
Believe it or not, Mt. Everest grows roughly this amount each year!
3 cm
500
This is the name for a fluid that rapidly switches between liquid and gas so fast it is simultaneously both.
Supercritical