Structure
The outer part of the Earth.
What is the crust?
The most recent supercontinent.
What is Pangea?
(Pangaea)
This is magma once it hits water or air.
What is lava?
This is were earthquakes are more likely to occur.
What is a plate boundary?
This rock type is composed of sediments.
What are sedimentary rocks?
Made up of heavy metals, is solid, and very hot.
What is the inner core?
This occurs in the mantle causing plates to move.
What is convection?
This can cause volcanoes to occur away from a plate boundary.
What is mantle plume?
What is a hot spot?
This wave that results from earthquakes has more of a rolling motion.
What is an S-wave?
This rock type is created from the reapplication of heat and pressure
What are metamorphic rocks?
This crust is thicker, less dense, and lighter in color.
What is continental crust?
This allowed for the ocean floor to be mapped post WWII.
What is sonar?
This occurs when crust sinks to the mantle and heats up creating volcanoes.
What is subduction?
This region is surrounded by volcanoes and subduction zones.
What is the ring of fire?
This rock forms from pyroclastic material or the cooling of lava.
What is extrusive igneous rock?
Surrounds the Earth and protects us from solar winds.
What is the magnetosphere?
Continental Drift, Seafloor Spreading, and Boundary Layer Theory.
What are the three parts of the Plate Tectonics theory?
This specific type of boundary most likely leads to orogenesis.
What is a continent to continent convergence boundary?
This scale is used to measure earthquakes.
What is the Moment magnitude Scale?
This is the ongoing "recycling" of lithospheric material.
What is the Rock Cycle?
These are the top four chemical elements of the crust.
What is Oxygen, Silicon, Aluminium, and Iron?
The man that theorized continental drift.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
The deepest part of the Mariana Trench.
What is Challenger's Depth?
This is sediments, rocks, and debris used to create more land or to support buildings.
What is landfill?
In HBO's The Game of Thrones, this rock is known as Dragon Glass.
What is Obsidian?