Movement of the Earth's Crust
Volcanoes
Mountains
Earthquakes
Misc.
100
Layer between the crust and core
What is mantle
100
Where most volcanoes are located
What is plate boundaries
100
This type of mountain building occurs where plates bend
What is folding
100
Point inside the earth where rock first move
What is the focus
100
The center of the Earth
What is the core
200
Large pieces of the Earth's crust
What are plates
200
Small volcanoe with steep sides
What is cinder cone
200
Forms when the overhanging block slips down.
What is a normal fault
200
Used to measure the strenght of an earthquake
What is Richter Scale
200
A mountain that builds around a vent where magma pushes up.
What is volcanoe
300
This occurs where plates are separating and magma is rising
What is sea-floor spreading
300
Low broad volcanoe with wide craters
What is shield volcanoe
300
Forms when the overhanging block rises
What is a reverse fault
300
Instrument used to record earthquake waves
What is seismograph
300
Theory that the Earth's surface is made of large sections of crust that move
What is Plate Tectonics
400
The continents used to be together as this supercontinent
What is Pangea
400
Formed by gentle reuptions alternating with explosive eruptions
What is composite volcanoe
400
Forms where the blocks slide past each other
What is strike-slip fault
400
Point on the Earth's surface directly over the focus
What is epicenter
400
Three types of earthquake waves.
What are P, S, and L
500
Scientist who suggested continental drift
What is Wegner
500
Round opening through which magma reaches the surface
What is vent
500
Two ways mountains form besides volcanoes
What is Faulting and folding
500
Large sea waves formed by underwater earthquakes
What are tsunamis
500
Mechanism that causes plates to move.
What is convection cells
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