EARTHQUAKES
VOLCANO
MID-OCEAN RIDGE
PLATE TECTONICS
PLATE BOUNDRIES
100
Earthquakes occur along these cracks in the earth's surface
What is faults
100
Molten rock on the surface of the earth.
What is lava
100
Long mountain chain is found in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean
What is the mid-Atlantic ridge
100
the boundary between the Earth's crust and the mantle
What is the Moho
100
The boundary where plates are spreading apart
What is Divergent Plate Boundries
200
The point in which the earth first moves creating an earthquake
What is foucs
200
Molten rock beneath the surface of the earth.
What is magma
200
The oldest ocean crust is found here
What is near the continents
200
The theory that Alfred Wegener developed
What is the Continental Drift Theory
200
When one plate goes under another
What is Subduction
300
The point on the earth's surface directly above an earthquake
What is the epicenter
300
a portion of the Earth's surface that may be far from tectonic plate boundaries and that experiences volcanism
What is hotspots
300
This island is located on top of a mid-ocean ridge
What is iceland
300
Type of crust that is made primarily of granite
What is Comtinenal Crust
300
The deepest parts of the ocean
What is Deep-ocean trenches
400
The fastest seismic wave
What is P-waves
400
Places where two plates, usually an oceanic plate and a continental plate, collide
What is Subduction Zones
400
Mid-ocean ridges are found at this type of tectonic boundary
What is Divirgent Boundries
400
broken up into what are called.....?
What is Tectonic Plates
400
Mountain chains located in the middle of the oceans
What is mid-ocean ridges
500
What earthquakes are measured by
What is the Richter scale
500
Common features on the ocean floor
What is Submarine volcanoes
500
New oceanic crust is formed through volcanic activity
What is seafloor spreading
500
DAILY DOUBLE!!!! This is considered to be the driving force behind tectonic plate movement
What is convection currents
500
plates that comprise the fractured surface of the earth
What is Lithospheric plates
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