Volcano examples
Plate tectonics
Misc.
Volcanoes/Earthquakes
Use your head!!!
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Devil's Tower in Wyoming
What is an example of a volcanic neck?
100
The reason Wegner's Theory of Continental drift was not taken seriously.
What is that he could not explain how the plates were moving?
100
Scale used to measure the magnitude of an earthquake.
What is the Richter Scale?
100
S waves or secondary waves.
What are the second waves to arrive at a location?
100
The direction the North American plate is moving in relation to the African plate.
What is away from the African plate?
200
Oregon's Crater Lake
What is an example of a caldera?
200
The approximate number of tectonic plates on Earth.
What is about 30?
200
Force associated with normal faults.
What is tension force?
200
P waves or Primary waves
What are the fastest seismic waves?
200
The small tectonic plate between the Pacific plate and the North American plate.
What is the Juan De Fuca plate?
300
Yosemite National Park
What is the location of an example of a batholith?
300
The distance the average tectonic plate moves in a year.
What is 2-4 cm?
300
Force associated with reverse faults.
What is compression force?
300
Point directly above the focus on the Earth's surface.
What is the epicenter?
300
Created the Andes Mountains.
What is the subduction of the Nazca plate under the South American plate?
400
Soufriere Hills
What is an example of a composite volcano?
400
When on tectonic plate sinks under another tectonic plate.
What is subduction?
400
The force associated with strike-slip faults.
What is shearing?
400
The point in the Earth's interior where the earthquake starts.
What is the focus?
400
A string of volcanoes located around the Pacific Plate.
What is the Ring of Fire?
500
Kilauea
What is an example of a shield volcano?
500
Deep crevice on the ocean floor just above a subduction zone.
What is a deep ocean trench?
500
What happens to a plate when it is subducted under another plate.
What is that the plate will remelt into magma?
500
Number of seismographs needed to locate an epicenter of an earthquake.
What is 3?
500
Where the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is located.
What is the the ocean floor in the middle of the Atlantic ocean?
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