Triple Layer Cake
You're Out of Bounds
We're Drifting Apart
It's Not Your Fault............It's Mine
Rumble, Rumble
100
An extremely hot solid sphere of mostly iron and nickel
a) outer core
b) crust
c) inner core
d) mantle
c) inner core
100
The place where two tectonic plates meet.
a) border
b) boundary zone
c) line
d) meeting
b) boundary zone
100
The name of the supercontinent
What is Pangaea?
100
A break in rock along the Earth's crust.
a) plat boundary
b) volcano
c) mid-ocean ridge
d) fault
What is a d) fault?
100
These seismic waves travel fastest during an earthquake
What are P waves?
200
Hard and rigid; outermost layer
a) crust
b) mantle
c) inner core
d) outer core
a) crust
200
Type of boundary when two plates move apart
What is a divergent boundary?
200
The scientist who proposed the theory of continental drift
Who is Alfred Wegener?
200
True or False:
Oceanic crust is more dense than continental crust.
What is true?
200
Is the point on Earth's surface directly above an earthquake's starting point
a. Epicenter
b. Focus
c. Fault
What is the epicenter?
300
semi-liquid layer; part of lower mantle where convection currents occur
a) crust
b) lithosphere
c) asthenosphere
d) mantle
c) asthenosphere
300
Type of boundary when one plate slides past another plate (ex. San Andreas Fault)
What is a transform boundary?
300
Wegener used many pieces of evidence to support his claim. Name one piece of evidence he used.....
What is fossils, rock layers, climate, or puzzle pieces?
300
1- Tension
2- Compression
3 - Shearing
300
a) convergent collision
b) divergent
c) transform
d) subduction
What is b) divergent?
400
a) conduction currents
b) convection currents
c) hot air balloon
d) earth's magnetic field
b) convection currents
400
Type of boundary when one plate sinks below another plate.
What is a convergent subduction zone?
400
At a mid ocean ridge the rock farthest from the mid ocean ridge is older than the rock closest to the mid ocean ridge. True or False?
What is true?
400
Which volcano shown above is the oldest?
a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 4
What is A) 1?
400
In order to locate the epicenter of an earthquake you must have data recorded from this many seismograph stations
What is 3?
500
Scientists are able to study the interior of the earth because of ---
a) Sonar
b) GPS
c) seismic waves
d) they have dug a super, super, super deep hole
What is c) seismic waves?
500
The Appalachian Mountains were formed from this type of plate boundary.
What is a convergent collision plate boundary?
500
Wegener had evidence, but what was he unable to explain.
What is HOW the continents moved?
500
a) volcanic islands
b) folded mountains
c) mid-ocean ridge
What is a) volcanic islands?
500
A volcano like the one pictured most likely formed at this type of plate boundary......
a. Transform
b. Convergent (continental - continental)
c. Divergent
d. Subduction (continental - oceanic)
What is d. subduction?