Geologic Time
Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Wisconsin
100
What is the Wisconsin State fossil?
Trilobite
100
What is Alfred Weneger known for?
Continental Drift
100
Which waves of an earthquake arrive first?
P-waves
100
What type of volcano is Mt. St. Helens?
Composite
100
A glacier-transported rock that is different from local bedrock.
Glacial erratic
200
How old is Baraboo Quartzite?
1.6 Billion years
200
Which direction are convergent plate boundaries moving?
Towards each other
200
Conversion of soil into a fluid-like mass during an earthquake
Liquefaction
200
Hawaiian Islands are formed over what feature that causes magma to rise?
Hot spot
200
What mineral is mined beneath Lake Erie?
Salt
300
Molds, casts, trilobites, and petrified wood are all examples of what?
Fossils
300
What was the single continent called 200 mya?
Pangea
300
Waves caused by the displacement of a large volume of water.
Tsunami
300
An underwater mountain range rising from the sea floor.
Seamounts
300
What kind of glacier is this?
Continental glacier
400
What is superposition?
Oldest rocks are at the bottom; each layer is younger than the layer beneath.
400
Iceland is on what type of plate boundary?
Divergent
400
What is the epicenter?
Point on the earth's surface directly above the starting point of the earthquake.
400
Where are shield volcanoes found?
Hawaii
400
The name for the region that is absent of glacial drift.
Driftless Area
500
Rock that formed from the cooling of molten rock.
Igneous Rock
500
Which plate boundaries slide next to each other?
Transform
500
Where was the largest earthquake recorded in the Midwest?
New Madrid, Missouri.
500
The belt around the Pacific plate that is characterized by earthquakes and volcanoes.
Ring of Fire
500
The level below which the ground is saturated with water.
Water table