Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Rocks
Plate Tectonics
100
How do you measure earthquakes?
What is the Richter scale
100
What are volcanoes?
What is a vent in the earth's crust through which lava, steam, ashes, etc., are expelled, either continuously or at irregular intervals
100
What are the 3 types of rocks?
What is igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary
100
What are plate tectonics?
What is A theory explaining the structure of the earth's crust
200
How often do earthquakes occur?
What is every day
200
How do they happen?
What is when there is an opening in the earth and lava comes out
200
What is the process that all rocks go through?
What is the rock cycle
200
What's the name of the supercontinent once formed by plate tectonics?
What is Pangaea
300
How do earthquakes happen?
What is when pressure underneath the Earth builds up and needs to be released
300
How do the mountains of volcanoes occur?
What is when the plates converge
300
What are the 2 main ways to determine the age of rocks?
What is relative and absolute
300
Who thought of Pangaea?
What is Alfred Wegener
400
What is the highest magnitude earthquake recorded?
What is The Great Chilean Earthquake
400
True or False: Can volcanoes form underwater?
What is true
400
What is carbon dating?
What is a way to determine the absolute age of rocks
400
When was the theory of plate tectonics discovered?
What is 1946
500
How high can the magnitude on the Richter scale go?
What is 10
500
who discovered earthquakes?
What is there is no specific person but it would be the first person who saw one blow
500
What's an example of relative age dating?
What is the law of superposition
500
How fast are the continents moving today?
What is less than 1 cm. a day
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