What is faults building up pressure, causing its elastic limit to break, making a rupture that is sent through that area.
100
What is a Fossil?
What is remnants of a living thing from long ago.
100
What is Continental Drift?
What is the theory that the continents were constantly moving VERY slowly.
100
Who was Alfred Wegener?
What is the man who came up with the theory of Continental drift.
200
What is a Volcano?
What is an opening in Earth that erupts gases, ash, and
lava.
200
Name one of the Types of Earthquakes.
What is Diverse, Transform, and Divergent.
200
What is Pangaea?
What is when the continents were all together as 1, it was called Pangaea.
200
What is, elastic limit?
What is the limit of pressure that can build up on an object(in this case rocks) until it breaks.
200
What theory did Harry Hess come up with?
What is Seafloor Spreading.
300
Name one of the three types of Volcanoes.
What is Shield, Cinder Cone, or Composite Volcano.
300
Where was the Earthquake killed over 20,000 people and injured 166,00 people, that was included in The Earthquake textbook Section?
What is India.
300
What is a fault?
What is A crack in the Earth’s Crust.
300
What other natural disaster can happen due to earthquakes? (It has to due with the ocean!)
What is a Tsunami.
300
Did society believe that Alfred Wegener's theory was right?
What is No.
400
True or False? Everything lava causes harmful to the Earth.
What is False.
400
What is an earthquakes epicenter?
What is The exact location of an earthquake.
400
What is a seismograph?
What is a machine that records how much energy is in an earthquake.
400
Name the 3 types of faults.
What is normal fault, reverse fault, and strike slip fault.
400
When did Harry Hess Come up with the theory of Seafloor spreading?
What is in the 1960's.
500
(This question was not in any learning material for ESC-5 or 4 so this question is for 1000 points if you get it right.)
What do scientists use to find out how hot a volcanoes lava is?
What is thermocouple.
500
When did the most Powerful Earthquake in India happen?
(It was in the Text book reading ESC-4)
What is 2001
500
What is asthenosphere?
What is The upper layer of the Earth's mantle.
500
Why was Alfred Wegener theory of Continental Drift Rejected?
What is His explanation for the mechanism that was moving the continents.