Plate Motion
All around the world, if you go just under the surface you will find always find this.
Hard, solid rock
A very large and destructive tsunami struck this island nation in 2011.
Japan
This type of rock was once a bubble in a volcano
Geode
This type of pressure system usually brings warm, dry weather.
High pressure
This is the capital of Australia
Canberra
The plates are able to move (slowly) because they "float" on this.
Soft, solid rock
Unlinke tsunami, normal ocean waves get most of their energy from this.
Wind!
This type of rock was made in a hot place
Igneous
This type of pressure system usually brings cooler, rainy weather.
Low pressure
His first song ever released was "That's All Right" in 1954. Thank you, thank you very much.
Elvis Presley
This structure is created where 2 plates move apart slowly underwater at a convergent plate boundary.
A trench!
This is why it's a bad idea for a warning system to give a lot of false alarms.
People will eventually ignore them
This type of rock is made up of layers of stuff that build up over a very long time
El Nino usually brings a lot of this to Southern California
Rain!
Exactly this many elements have been named after people
19
This structure is formed where 2 plates come together at a convergent boundary.
A trench!
This is the root cause of a tsunami
An earthquake causes a sudden shift in the sea floor
These rocks go through great changes in their lifetimes.
Metamorphic
These scary wind events can happen when a very cool dry air mass meets a warm, wet air mass. Look out Dorothy!
A tornado
This supercar company made tractors for farms first. When the owner had trouble buying a Ferrari, he started making his own super cars.
Lamborghini
This plate boundary type is just a few miles away from us.
Convergent!
Tsunami means this in Japanese
Harbor wave
A very expensive "rock" made of 100% pure carbon.
A diamond
June Gloom / May Gray
Thomas Paine