Vocabulary
Earthquakes
Continental Drift Theory
Plate Tectonics
Volcanoes
100
The thinnest and upper most layer of the Earth
What is the crust
100
This is a large crack in the Earth’s crust where on part of the crust has moved against another part.
What is a fault?
100
When we say super continent we are referring to this.
What is Pangaea?
100
The most outer solid portion of the planet Earth is called the
What is the crust?
100
A volcano is a place on the Earth's surface where molten ______________, gases and debris erupt.
What is rock?
200
A number of rigid, but moving, pieces of Earth's surface
What is tectonic plates.
200
Point inside the Earth where an earthquake begins
What is the focus?
200
Evidence of matching animal fossils from two separate continents which were _____________________ and _____________________
What is Africa and South America?
200
As we sit here in the classroom, are tectonic plates moving under us?
What is yes?
200
When _______ erupts through the Earth's surface it is called _____.
What is magma and lava?
300
The theory that all continents are fragments of Pangaea now drifting apart
What is the Continental Drift Theory
300
The most destructive types of waves.
What are surface waves?
300
This person created the Continental Drift Theory.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
300
Name four of the major plates
What is any of the following North American plate, South American plate, Eurasian Plate, Indoaustralia plate, African plate, Antarctica plate
300
The largest known volcano in our Solar System is on this planet.
What is Mars?
400
This scale is used to determine the magnitude of an Earthquake using the damage it caused.
What is the Richter scale?
400
These are the first waves to arrive at an earthquake
What are P waves?
400
Pangaea existed this many millions of years ago
What is around 250 million years ago
400
______________ Zones. Places where the seafloor is forced under continental plates.
What are Subduction Zones
400
A ________ is an opening in the Earth's surface through which volcanic materials erupt
What is a vent?
500
The hottest layer of the Earth, this layer is believed to be SOLID metal.
What is the inner core?
500
This happens when rock stretches then reaches a breaking point, releasing energy
What is Elastic Deformation?
500
Continental Drift Theory was not accepted because it did not explain this...
What is how the continents moved? It only provided evidence of similar fossils on different continents
500
___________________ occurs here where new ocean floor is formed.
What is Sea-floor spreading?
500
A ___________ is a passage through which magma (molten rock) flows in a volcano.
What is a Conduit?
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