Multiple Choice
Evidence supporting the hypothesis above included fossils, land features, and:
a ocean currents
b solar activity
C climate data
d presence of bacteria
What is C ?
A _________________________ is a wave or series of waves produced by an earthquake or landslide.
What is Tsunami?
The name of the scale that measures earthquakes.
What is Richter Scale?
Hot liquid under the Earth's surface
Ms. Fisher's favorite color.
What is green?
The zipper like mountains that run across the floors of the ocean are called:
a tectonic plates
b mid-ocean ridges
C subduction zones
d convergent boundaries
What is B ?
The shaking and trembling that results from this plate movement is called a(n) ________________________.
What is Earthquake?
Earthquakes happen when the plates do one of these three things.
What is Move apart; bump into each other; or slide under each other?
Molten rock expelled from a volcano.
What is lava?
Ms. Fisher's favorite holiday.
What is Thanksgiving?
Plates move apart from each other at
a divergent boundary
b convergent boundary
C transform boundary
d subduction boundary
What is A ?
A mixture of rock-forming substances, gases, and water from the mantel combine to form ________________.
What is magma?
The U.S. State that is most earthquake prone?
California.
Bonus point - Why?
The layer of the earth that produces lava.
What is the mantle?
Ms. Fisher's three favorite sports teams. MUST get all 3 for the 300.
What are Buffalo Bills, New York Yankees, and Buffalo Sabers?
Which one of the following is NOT a type of volcano:
a shield
b cinder cone
C composite
d continental
What is D ?
Once magma reaches the surface, it then is known as _____________________.
What is lava?
The underground focus point of an earthquake.
What is hypocenter?
A volcano that is active but not erupting. In a way, it is "sleeping".
What is dormant?
Name Ms. Fisher's three favorite humans. You must name by their first name.
Who are Jack, Ryleigh, and Evelyn?
The type of stress that pulls on and thins an area of Earth’s crust is called:
a torsion
b tension
C shearing
d diverging
What is B ?
The force that acts on rock to change its shape or volume is called _______________.
What is stress?
Volcanoes may emerge at long cracks in Earth's crust at ______ - _______ ridges, on continents near convergent _____________ , and at random locations away from plate boundaries called _____________.
What is
mid-ocean
boundaries
hot spots
The horseshoe shaped area of the Pacific Ocean where it holds 90% of all volcanoes.
What is Ring of Fire?
Name something Ms. Fisher loves.
What is:
Family
Being with people I love
Teaching
YOU
Helping others
Laughing
Sports
Reading
Puzzling