Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Tectonic Plates
Earth's Layers
Continental Drift
100
What is an Earthquake
100
A volcano is ..
What is an opening in Earth's surface from which lava flows.
100
There are _____ types of plates, What are their names
Two .. and What are oceanic and continental
100
Rank the layers of the Earth from hottest to coolest.
Inner Core, Outer Core, Mantle, Crust
100
Label the three types of tectonic boundaries:
→← ________________________
←→ __________________________
↑↓ ___________________________
→← Convergent
←→ Divergent
↑↓ Transform
200
When the seafloor moves as a result of an underwater earthquake what will most likely cause
What is Tsunami
200
What is an area in the Pacific Ocean where the most volcanic and earthquake activity occurs?
What is the Ring of Fire?
200
Describe divergent plate boundaries movement? You may use a hand gesture.
What are the areas where tectonic plates are spreading apart.
200
Which layer do we live on?
Continental Crust
200
What causes the plates to move?
Continental Current
300
The most active earthquake areas are associated with the boundaries of lithospheric plates. Explain what happens to the lithospheric plates at these boundaries that causes an earthquake.
What is
- the plates collide.
— Plates slide by each other.
— plates move
300
What is lava?
Magma that has reached earth’s surface
300
Name the location where two plates meet.
What is a plate boundary?
300
Explain why the inner core is solid even though it is extremely hot.
The inner core's intense pressure—prevents the iron from melting.
300
A supercontinent that was made up of all continents today
What is Pangaea?
400
Which best describes a major characteristic of both volcanoes and earthquakes?
They are located mostly around Plate Boundaries.
400
Put an X at the place that Volcano would most likely form
400
There are _____ types of plate boundaries movement
What are their names ?
What are divergent, convergent, transform )
400
What is the lithosphere?
What is the crust and upper portion of the mantle?
400
What is Alfred Wegener? What is his discovery ?
Who was the first person who used the term "continental drift"?
500
Why are the Earthquakes in New York State so rare and of low magnitude ?
The New York City area is far from the plate boundaries (the North American plate)
500
Volcanoes can be useful to people because volcanoes
What is, add minerals to the soil.
500
What is the name of the movement shown by the arrows ?
Convection Current
500
Which Earth layer contains convection currents that are believed to be responsible for the movement of Earth's tectonic plates?
What is mantle
500
What are 2 pieces of evidence for continental drift?
Fossils, puzzle fit, glacial grooves, rock strata, mountain belts
600
Which form of energy is transformed into seismic waves during an earthquake?
What is Potential Energy into Kinetic- Seismic Waves
600
What do colliding plates have to do with volcanoes?
one plate dives beneath the other, resulting in a variety of earthquakes and crucks in the continental crust that magma uses to get to the surface creating volcanoes 
600
The Earth’s crust is divided into ______ major plates which are moved in various directions.
What is 12
600
_________________ and pressure both increase with depth in the Earth's interior.
What is temperature
600
Pangaea was a greek term meaning ___ _____.
What is All Lands?