Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Continental Drift
and Sea Floor Spreading
Vocabulary
Earth's Moving Plates
100
The thick molten rock dispersed by volcanoes...
What is magma.
100
The central part of an earthquake...
What is the epicenter.
100
The youngest rock in the ocean is found where...
What is in the middle.
100
A crack in the earth caused by movement of the tectonic plates...
What is a fault line.
100
The outward most layer of earth...
What is the crust.
200
The most dangerous of the three types of volcanoes...
What is composite.
200
Rock layers above the fault line slides downward relative to other rocks...
What is a normal fault.
200
Name one of three pieces of evidence that support continental drift theory...
What is climate, rock layers/fossils, and plant/animals.
200
The large landmass that existed during the paleozoic and mesozoic eras which eventually split apart to form the seven continents...
What is Pangea.
200
The layer in between the crust and the outer core...
What is the mantle.
300
Plates move apart allowing magma to rise...
What is a divergent boundary.
300
The three different types of seismic waves...
What is primary, secondary, and surface waves.
300
How do rock layers contribute as proof to the continental drift theory...
What is the fact that some of the same fossils and rock layers have been found on different continents.
300
The section of the Earth that makes up the crust and upper mantle...
What is the lithosphere.
300
The five main interior parts of Earth...
What is crust, mantle, core, asthenosphere, and lithosphere.
400
Shield, cinder cone and composite...
What is the three types of volcanoes.
400
In which of the three types of seismic waves does energy move at a right angle to the direction of the wave...
What is a secondary wave.
400
Who created the theory of sea floor spreading...
Who is Henry Hess.
400
An underground shock-wave created by earthquakes...
What is a seismic wave.
400
The three types of plate boundaries...
What is convergent, divergent, and transform.
500
convergent, divergent and hot spot...
What is the three boundaries/locations in which volcanoes can form.
500
Measures the amount of energy released by an earthquake...
What is the Richter Scale.
500
Who came up with the theory of continental drift...
Who is Alfred Wegner.
500
A type of wave in which energy shoots forward and makes the rock particles vibrate parallel to the direction of the wave...
What is a primary wave.
500
The type of boundary in which plates slide past each other horizontally.
What is a transform boundary.
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