Land Movement
Name given to original landmass.
What is Rodinia ... or Pangea.
(either one is correct)
True or False: There are relatively few mountain ranges in the world.
What is false.
Volcano that has not erupted in the past 50 years.
What is Dormant?
Instrument for measuring earthquakes.
What is a seismograph?
These are the three types of volcanoes
What are shield, cinder cone, and composite?
Theory that the crust is composed of several large landmasses.
What is Plate Tectonics?
This kind of fold is formed when rocks bend upward.
What is anticline?
Volcano that is not expected to erupt again.
What is extinct?
Smaller quakes after a major earthquake.
What are aftershocks?
These are blobs of lava that harden as they fall.
What are bombs?
One tectonic plate sliding under another.
What is subduction?
When a tectonic plate splits in the middle.
What is rifting?
Volcano that recently erupted in Washington state.
What is Mt. St. Helens?
The Richter scale measures this.
What is magnitude?
These are the three types of mountains.
What are depositional, erosional, and fold?
The name given to the movement of tectonic plates.
What is Continental Drift?
This is the highest mountain peak on earth.
What is Mt. Everest?
Volcano that had one of the largest eruptions ever.
What is Krakatoa?
True or false: A hanging wall moves downward in a normal fault.
What is true?
This is what you call the center of earthquake activity.
What is the focus?
This is what causes rock layers to fold or bend.
What is pressure on tectonic plates?
This is a series of mountain peaks in a given area.
What is Mountain Range?
Type of volcano formed from lava and solid material.
What is composite?
This is where most volcanoes and earthquakes occur.
Where is the ring of fire?
What is the shape of a basalt/shield volcano?
What has gently sloping sides?