Earthquakes
Volcanos
fault lines
Tectonic Plates
History of Plate tectonics
100
The distance Earthquakes can move the Earth's crust.
What is 700 km?
100
Molten rock forcing it's way through a weak spot in the earth's crust.
How are Volcanoes formed?
100
The enormousness amounts of pressure on the Earth's layers.
What makes the plates bend up or down?
100
The theory that states that tectonic plates are constantly drifting.
What is the Theory of continental drift?
100
The year when people realized that the Earth's surface is not as it was when it was created.
What is 1880
200
The origin of an earthquake, can be found directly below where the movement began.
What is an Epicenter?
200
The place where multiple volcanoes can be found around the world.
What is The Ring of Fire ( BRU-HAH-HAH)?
200
Rocks cracking as a result of the huge forces acting on them.
What is a fault?
200
The bed of molten rock that the plates drift upon.
What is The Mantle?
200
The creator of the theory of continental drift.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
300
The scale used to measure the magnitude of an earthquake, compared to other earthquakes.
What is The Richter Scale?
300
Yellow stone, National Park.
What is a super volcano in the middle of the North America?
300
An immense fault stretching from northern to southern California.
What is The San Andreas Fault?
300
The two types of tectonic plates.
What are Continental and Oceanic Plates?
300
The century that proof of the continents moving was found.
What is the 1900's?
400
The tool used to graph the magnitude of an earthquake.
What is a seismometer?
400
A volcano that can currently erupt.
What is an active volcano?
400
The world's second largest fault.
What is The Central African Shear Fault?
400
When 2 tectonic plates collide.
How are converging plates created?
400
The name of the super continent, where all of the current continents where connected.
What is Pangea?
500
The place of the largest recorded earthquake.
What is Valdivia, Chile?
500
The worlds largest volcano.
What is Mauna Loa?
500
The World's largest fault.
What is The Sunda Megathrust?
500
Cooled lava moving back towards the center of the Earth.
What is a Convection current?
500
The slabs of the Earth's crust.
What are Tectonic Plates?
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