Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Vocabulary
Fill in the Blank
100
The person who suggested that all the continents were all connected as one large landmass
What is Alfred Wegener
100
The instrument that measures seismic waves
What is a seismograph/seismometer
100
An opening in Earth that erupts gases, ash, and lava
What is a volcano
100
The large landmass that means "all land"
What is Pangaea
100
____ is the way scientists use three data points to find the Earthquakes epicenter
What is triangulation
200
The theory that states that Earth's crust and part of the upper mantle are broken into sections
What is plate tectonics
200
The waves that are generated by an earthquake
What is seismic waves
200
An area where Earth's plates are moving apart
What is Divergent Plate Boundary
200
A steep-walled depression around a volcano's vent
What is crater
200
The _________ scale measures an earthquakes impact on people and buildings
What is Mercalli
300
The sections that move on the plastic like layer of the mantle.
What is plates
300
The first type of seismic wave to reach other locations
What is P waves
300
A volcano with nonviolent eruptions, not as tall/steep as other volcanoes
What is a shield volcano
300
Where oceanic and continental plates collide and the oceanic plate plunges beneath the less dense continental plate
What is subdution
300
A ______ is a giant wave caused by earthquakes under the ocean
What is a tsunami
400
The plastic like layer below the crust
What is mantle
400
The seismic wave that causes the most destruction
What is Surface Waves
400
The type of volcano with violent/explosive eruptions
What is cinder cone volcano
400
The location in the earth where an earthquake happens
What is focus
400
An ______ is when smaller earthquakes hit after a large earthquake
What is aftershock
500
When continental plates pull apart, they can form this.
What is a Rift Valley
500
The type of wave that moves through the Earth but cannot go through the outer core
What is S waves
500
Give a name of a volcano (not type, but actual volcano)
Many answers
500
The location on the Earth's surface above where a volcano hit
What is epicenter
500
A______ is a crack or fracture in the Earth's crust
What is a fault
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