Continental Drift
Wegener/Hess
Plate Tectonics and Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Potpourri
100

This land mass from 335 million years ago means 'all land'

What is Pangea?

100

This was Harry Hess's theory

What is seafloor spreading?

100

The theory that combined seafloor spreading and continental drift

What is plate tectonics?

100

The energy from earthquakes is released in this form

What are seismic waves?

100

What is my pugs name?

Who is Beans?

200

This man made the theory of continental drift

Who is Alfred Wegener?

200

The evidence for seafloor spreading

What are ages of rocks, and magnetic striping?

200

This type of volcano has gentle sloping sides formed from quiet eruptions.

What is a shield volcano?

200
This plate boundary is the most likely to cause an earthquake

What are transform plate boundaries?

200

When loose soil acts like a liquid during an earthquake

What is liquefaction?
300

This fossil was found on many continents far apart, and was a fossil clue for continental drift

What is a mesosaurus?

300

This theory unified the theory of seafloor spreading and continental drift 

What is plate tectonics?

300

These are places where two plates interact

What are plate boundaries?

300
This allows us to measure the magnitude of an earthquake.

What is a seismograph?

300
This type of eruption occurs when magma has high silica and water content. 

What are explosive eruptions?

400
This plant fossil found on many continents was a plant clue for continental drift

What is Glossopteris?

400

The type of plate boundary where seafloor spreading is occurring

What is a divergent plate boundary?

400
The 'pool' of magma found under an active volcano.

What is the magma chamber?

400

This can occur when an earthquake occurs under the water

What is a tsunami?

400
Formed when the top of a volcano collapses on itself.

What is a caldera?

500

This man made the theory of Seafloor spreading, which reinvigorated the theory of continental drift

Who is Harry Hess?

500

The name of the ridge where seafloor spreading is occurring

What is the mid-Atlantic ridge?

500

When two plates meet and one gets pushed under the other

What are subduction zones?

500

The place on the surface of the earth above the focus

What is the epicenter?

500

These seismic waves move the slowest and cause the most damage

What are surface waves?

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