Plate Movement
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Sea-floor spreading
Earth's interior
100
The type of convergent boundary where mountains form.
What is continental-continental
100
The place where magma comes out of the volcano.
What is vents
100
Type of boundary at which earthquakes occur.
What is transform boundary?
100
Where sea-floor spreading occurs.(not the boundary)
What is mid-ocean ridges?
100
The thinnest outer-most layer of the earth.
What is the crust?
200
The rate at which tectonic plates move.
What is centimeters per year?
200
The place where the magma is held in a volcano.
What is the magma chamber?
200
The studying of earthquakes.
What is seismology?
200
The boundary at which sea-floor spreading occurs.
What is divergent boundary?
200
The layer in which solid rock moves slowly.
What is asthenosphere?
300
When hot rock rises and cool rock sinks and causes tectonic plates to move sideways.
What is convection?
300
What magma is called once it reaches Earth's surface.
What is lava?
300
The point on a fault where the first motion of an earthquake occurs.
What is the focus
300
The process in which new oceanic lithosphere forms as magma rises to the surface and solidifies.
What is Sea-floor spreading?
300
The layer that takes up 67% of Earth's mass.
What is the mantle?
400
The fault in which the hanging wall moves down relative to the footwall.
What is a Normal Fault?
400
The four types of lava.
What is Aa, Pahoehoe, Pillow Lava, Blocky Lava?
400
The fastest seismic waves that move the rock back and forth, and squeezes and stretches it as it goes through it
What is P Waves
400
The theory of how sea-floor spreading started.
What is magnetic reversal?
400
The thing that can map Earth's interior.
What is seismic waves
500
The layers tectonic plates are made of.
What is the crust and rigid upper part of the mantle?
500
The three types of volcanoes.
What is shield, composite, and cinder cone?
500
The scale that measures the magnitude of an earthquake.
What is Richter Magnitude Scale?
500
What is thought to broken up Pangaea.
What is Sea-floor spreading?
500
The layer with solid iron that is 6,380 km below the surface.
What is Inner Core?
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