A number of rigid, but moving, pieces of Earth's surface
What are tectonic plates?
100
A potential destructive release of energy caused by plate movements is
What an earthquake?
100
Draw a normal fault and indicate the motion along the fault. Normal faults occur along ________ boundaries.
What is Divergent?
100
Volcanoes are usually located in relation to these
What is a plate boundary?
100
Name two mountain ranges in the world.
What are the Appalachian, Rocky, Alps, Andes, Himalaya, Cascades, Sierra Nevada, Ural, Atlas...?
200
The theory that predated Plate Tectonic Theory, that stated that continents floating around across the Earth surface.
What is Continental Drift?
200
Earthquakes are measured using the ____________ scale
What is the Richter?
200
Draw a reverse fault and indicate the motion along the fault. Reverse faults occur along ________ boundaries.
What is Convergent?
200
The mid-ocean ridge is an example of a ____________________ boundary and ___________________ is formed from extruded magma.
What is divergent boundary; ocean crust?
200
Volcanic mountains can occur with this type of plate boundary.
What is convergent and divergent (double points for both)
300
The tectonic plates are separated by _______________. There are three types, name them
What is the Plate Boundaries, convergent, divergent, transform?
300
A ___________ measures the arrival of the __________ wave first, and the ____________ wave second.
Seismometer (Seismograph), P wave, S wave
300
Draw a strike slip fault and indicate the motion along the fault. Strike slip faults occur along ________ boundaries.
What is Transform?
300
Volcanoes that do not occur along plate boundaries may be formed as a result of a _________________ (think Hawaii and Yellowstone)
What is a hot spot?
300
___________ and _____________ are the types of folds that make up folded mountains. They form associated with __________ plate boundaries.
What are anticlines and synclines, convergent?
400
The first major proponent of Continental Drift theory. He died as a result of his research.
Who is Alfred Wegner?
400
We need _____ seismographs to determine the location of an earthquake. This process is known as _______________.
What is 3, triangulation?
400
Draw a thrust fault and indicate the motion along the fault. Thrust faults occur along ________ boundaries.
What is Convergent?
400
A volcano that erupts _________ will cause massive clouds of ash and pyroclastic materials. A volcano that erupts _______ will have lava flows down its sides.
What is explosively, effusively?
400
This type of plate boundary is less likely to form mountains
What is a transform boundary?
500
There are ____ major layers of the Earth. Name them in order.
What is inner core, outer core, mantle, crust?
500
Draw a P wave and a S wave. Indicate the type of wave, what materials the waves can pass through, and which wave is faster.
P wave: Compression, all materials, fastest wave
S wave: Shear, solids only
See board for drawing
500
Which fault would result in older rock being higher on a mountain that younger rock?
What is reverse/thrust and normal? (double points for both listed!)
500
Volcano eruption types (explosive, effusive) are determined by the ______________ of the magma. Explosive volcanoes tend to have _________ magma, and effusive volcanoes tend to have ___________ magma.
What is composition, felsic, mafic?
500
The highest mountain in the world is ____________________ and it is associated with a _____________ plate boundary