Structure of the Earth
What is the name of the outermost layer of the Earth?
What is the crust?
Who is the theorist who proposed the theory of Continental Drift?
Who is Alfred Wegener?
What plate is thinner, oceanic or continental?
What scale measures an earthquake's magnitude called?
What is the Moment Magnitude scale?
A force that acts on a rock to change its shape or volume
What is stress?
Which layer of the earth makes up 83% of the earth's mass?
What is the mantle?
What is the name of the supercontinent that existed 300 million years ago?
What is Pangaea?
Who proposed the theory of Plate Tectonics?
Who is J Wilson?
Where do Earthquakes mostly occur?
What are plate boundaries?
What type of stress occurs when two plates are pulled apart?
Which part of the core controls the magnetic field?
What is the outer core?
Which two continents fit together like puzzle pieces as evidence for continental drift?
What are Africa and South America?
What powers the movement of tectonic plates beneath the Earth's surface?
What are convection currents?
At what point does an earthquake begin?
What is the focus point?
What kind of fault occurs when two tectonic plates slide horizontally past each other?
What is a strike slip fault?
The inner core is mostly composed of...
What is iron?
What type of fossils provided evidence that continents were once connected?
What is the Mesosaurus (freshwater reptile)?
What geological events are caused by the movement of tectonic plates?
What are earthquakes, volcanoes and mountain formation?
What type of boundary causes subduction and results in earthquakes and tsunamis?
What is a destructive/convergent boundary?
What type of fault involves the hanging wall shifting downward?
What is a normal fault?
Why was Wegener's theory initially rejected by the scientific community?
What is "he could not explain how the continents moved"?
What rises and sinks back down towards the core as it cools to create a conveyor belt motion?
What is magma
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake releases how much more energy than a magnitude 5.0 earthquake on the Richter scale?
What is 32 times more?
Who was the actor in a movie based on San Andreas Fault?
Who is Dwayne The Rock Johnson?