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Which scales rates earthquake damage at a particular location?
What is Modified Mercalli Scale
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Plates pull apart at ______________ boundaries.
What are divergent
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In which direction do seismic waves travel during an earthquake? DAILY DOUBLE
What is outward from the focus
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Convection currents cause _____________ to move.
What are tectonic plates
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TRUE OR FALSE: *Shield* volcanoes have explosive and quiet eruptions.
FALSE, composite volcanoes
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The movement of tectonic plates is caused by convection currents in Earth's _____________.
What is the mantle
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Earth's lithosphere is broken up into large pieces called _______________.
What are tectonic plates
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Magma that flows onto Earth's surface is called _________.
What is lava
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Most of Earth's surface is covered by ___________.
What is water.
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An *independent variable* is the suggested answer or educated guess to a scientific question. DAILY DOUBLE
FALSE; hypothesis
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The outer layer of Earth is the __________.
What is the crust
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The asthenosphere is located in the ____________ .
What is the mantle
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When rock layers bend but do not break, they form _________.
What are folds
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Name the giant landmass Wegner named to support his theory of Continental Drift.
What is Pangea
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What is the independent variable? DAILY DOUBLE
What the experimenter is testing or changing.
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Waves produced by an earthquake are called ________.
What are seismic waves
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Shield volcanoes are formed by layers of _________.
What is lava
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What is volcanism? DAILY DOUBLE
What is movement of magma inside the Earth.
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TRUE OR FALSE: Earth is made up of different layers.
TRUE
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What is constants?
What are the things in the experiment that remain the same. (location, time, amounts, etc.)
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What happens to new oceanic crust at a mid-ocean ridge?
New under water mountains are formed
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A break in a rock is a _________.
What is a fracture
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The movement of tectonic plates at a fault is a cause of _____.
What are earthquakes
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TRUE OR FALSE: Plates slide past each other at *convergent boundaries*.
What is FALSE TRANSFORM BOUNDARIES
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What is a dependent variable?
What are the results of the changes or independent variable.
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