It is the name of the one landmass that existed almost two hundred forty-five million years ago
What is pangaea?
100
Any place where gas, ash, or melted rock come out of the ground
What is a volcano?
100
The place within Earth, usually along a fault, where the earthquake started
What is the focus?
100
The amount of force per unit area placed on an object
What is stress?
200
Crust, mantle, and core
What are the three layers when Earth is divided by chemical composition?
200
The one massive ocean that surrounded Pangaea
What is Panthalassa?
200
A volcano that hasn't erupted in a very long time
What is a dormant volcano?
200
An extremely long wave that can travel across the ocean at speeds up to eight hundred kilometers per hour
What is a tsunami?
200
Tension, compression, shear stress
What are the three types of stress?
300
Lithosphere, asthenosphere, meosphere, outer core, and inner core
What are the five layers of the Earth when divided by physical properties?
300
Convergent, divergent, and transform
What are the three types of plate boundaries?
300
Hot ash and bits of rock
What are pyroclastic materials?
300
Prepare an earthquake emergency kit, secure heavy objects, know the safe and dangerous spots, know first aid, know how to turn off the gas and water heater, etc
What are somethings you should do to prepare for an earthquake?
300
Normal, reverse, and strike-slip
What are the three types of faults?
400
While they are both part of the mantle, one is the weaker softer part and the other is the stong lower part.
What is the difference between the asthenosphere and the meosphere?
400
Alfred Wegener
Who first theorized continental drift?
400
Resistance of liquid materials to flow
What is viscosity?
400
Either stay indoors or get into the open, duck and cover
What are somethings you should do during an earth quake?
400
Folded, volcanic, and fault-block
What are the three types of mountains?
500
It is thicker because it has almost double the amount of iron, calcium, and magnesium.
Why is oceanic crust thicker than continental crust?
500
The pieces that the lithosphere or crust are broken into