Plate Tectonics
The person who came up with the theory of "continental drift".
Who is Alfred Wegener
Where is Hawaii?
Molten rock inside of a volcano.
What is magma?
____ is liquid rock on the surface of a volcano.
What is a lava?
Earth's crust and part of the upper mantle are broken into these.
What are tectonic plates.
This is caused when plates slide past each other.
What are earthquakes?
An area where Earth's plates are moving apart
What is Divergent Plate Boundary
What is a dormant volcano?
The _________ is the measure of the energy that is released during an earthquake
What is the magnitude
When oceanic and continental plates converge, these are formed.
What are volcanoes?
The types of boundary where plates slide past each other.
What are transform boundaries?
The large, steep-sided volcanoes also called stratovolcanoes.
What are composite volcanoes?
Where plates slide past each other causing an earthquake. ___________.
What are transform boundaries?
When oceanic plates converge and one plates sinks beneath the other, this is formed.
What is an ocean trench?
The location on land where an earthquake begins.
What is the epicenter?
The largest type of volcano.
What is a shield volcano?
Where oceanic and continental plates collide and the oceanic plate plunges beneath the less dense continental plate
What is subduction
The ________________ in the Pacific is the most active volcanoes in the world.
What is the Ring of Fire?
These tectonic plate boundaries are usually found on the ocean floor.
What are Divergent boundaries?
Shaking that continues in the earth's crust after an earthquake.
Mt. Fuji is this type of volcano.
What is composite cone or stratovolcano.
The large landmass that means "all land"
What is Pangaea
__________ forms when molten rock from a volcano hardens.
What is igneous rock?