Lithosphere
Earthquakes!
Volcanoes
Plate Tectonics
Grab Bag!!
100
The outer surface of the earth.
What is the crust?
100
Sudden shifts in the earth's crust.
What are earthquakes?
100
Cone-shaped vents in the earth's crust.
What are volcanoes?
100
The name of the super continent.
What is Pangaea?
100
The name for crust that is underneath the water.
What is oceanic crust?
200
The name for the solid part of the earth.
What is the lithosphere?
200
The machine that measure the force of a quake.
What is a seismograph?
200
The substance that comes out of a volcano when it erupts.
What is lava or magma?
200
The movement of the continents.
What is continental drifting?
200
Jet streams of both steam and water.
What are geysers?
300
When rain and temperature changes break up, wash away or erode the land.
What is weathering?
300
The scale used to compare the strength of different quakes.
What is the Richter Scale?
300
Pools of hot, bubbling water.
What are hot springs?
300
The person who created the theory of plate tectonics.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
300
The name for the place where an earthquake starts.
What is the focus?
400
The loose top layer that covers large parts of the land area.
What is soil
400
Cracks in the earth's crust.
What are faults?
400
The volcano that erupted in Washington state in 1980.
What is Mount Saint Helens?
400
The type of boundary that occurs when two plates move apart, causing magma to come up the crack.
What is a divergent boundary?
400
The name for the boundary that occurs when two plates rub together, causing an earthquake.
What are transform boundaries?
500
Everything in the universe is made of these or combinations of these.
What are elements?
500
The fault that runs north and south along the west coast of North America.
What is the San Andreas fault?
500
The name for where most volcanoes are located, along the plates under the earth's crust.
What is the Ring of Fire?
500
A word that means "building" or "construction"
What is tectonics?
500
Two different ways that weathering occurs.
What are ice (from freezing and thawing), wind, and plants.
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