Earthquakes
Waves
Plate Tectonic
Review
Volcanos
100
Vibrations in the ground that result from breaks in the lithosphere.

What is a earthquake?

100
Energy that travels as vibrations on and in earth.
What is seismic waves?
100
Rigid slabs of rocks, that move with respect from each other.
What is plate tectonics?
100
The color of a mineral's powder.
What is streak?
100
Vent in earth's crust through which molten rock flows.
What is a volcano?
200
Scientists that study earthquakes.
What is a seismologists?
200
Particles in the ground move up and down in a rolling motion
What is a surface wave?
200
When two plates seperate.
What is a divergent plate boundary?
200
Mountain ranges in the middle of the ocean?
What is mid-ocean ridges?
200

Tiny particles of pulverized volcanic rock and glass.

What is volcanic ash?

300
Most earthquakes occur along the edge of a continent and what else?
What is oceans?
300
Particles move up and down at right angles relative to the direction the wave travels.
What is secondary waves?
300
When two plates slide past each other.
What is a transform plate boundary?
300
Continents are in constant motion on Earth's surface.
What is continental drift?
300
Molten rock below earth's surface.
What is magma?
400
The deepest earthquake occur where the plates collide which is what type of boundary.
What is convergent boundary?
400
Particles in the ground to move in a push-pull motion.
What is primary waves?
400
When two plates collide.
What is a convergent plate boundary?
400
The process which new crust forms near a mid-ocean ridge and older crust moves away.
What is seafloor spreading?
400
Molten rock that erupts onto earth's surface.
What is lava?
500
Shallow earthquakes are common where plates separate along what boundary.
What is a divergent boundary?
500
Scientist use wave motion, wave speed, and type of material the wave travels through to determine.
What is classifying a seismic wave?
500

The denser plate sinks under the more buoyant plate in the process.

What is subduction?
500

Gas in the atmosphere that absorbs and reradiate  thermal energy from the sun.

What is greenhouse gases?
500
Volcanoes that are not associated with plate boundaries.
What is a hotspot?
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