The scientist that came up with the idea of Pangaea.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
100
The name of the hot, molten liquid below the earth?
What is magma?
100
The place were earthquakes are primarily found. HINT: the same place as volcanoes.
What is on the plate boundary?
100
This layer of the Earth is liquid and solid.
What is the mantle?
200
Forms when two plates slide past each other.
What is tranform boundary.
200
The boundary type where a continental crust pulls apart from a oceanic crust.
What is a divergent boundary?
200
The type of volcano that occurs in the middle of the plate.
What is a hotspot?
200
Tremendous amouts of this is release, which causes the earthquake?
What is energy?
200
The point where slippage first occurs?
What is the focus?
300
A change in the earth due to plate interaction.
What are plate tectonics
300
When two oceanic crusts meet they form something.
What is a trench?
300
The name of the substance above the earth's surface that creates extrusive igneous rocks.
What is lava?
300
The surface waves that are the most destructive and travel the slowest.
What are L waves or "Love" waves?
300
The Himalayas is an example of where mountains form due to convergent boundaries, specifically _______.
What is continental-continental?
400
Plate boundaries move away from each other
What is divergent boundary?
400
When two continental crusts converge, they form a structure.
What is a mountain?
400
Causes of volcanoes (ALL THREE)
What is subduction, rifting, and hotspots?
400
The idea that plates snap back after the release of the "stress" or energy that causes the plates to move and the earth to shake.
What is the Elastic Rebound Theory?
400
The San Adres Fault between Los Angeles and San Francisco is cause by this type of boundary?
What is transform?
500
The four (ALL FOUR) ways that we know plates were once connected (all one continent).
What is 1.fossils 2.rocks 3.puzzle 4.glacial deposits?
500
The three types of convergent boundaries.
What is oceanic-ocean, continental-continental, and oceanic-continental?
500
This takes place on the East Coast of Asia and the West Coasts of North and South America.
What is the Pacific Ring of Fire?
500
Take ______ (number) P and S values, from the reading or _________, and determine the _________distance. (INCLUDE ALL ANSWERS)
What is 3, seismogram, epicenter?
500
_____ wave travels through liquid, solid, and gas (air).
_____ wave travels through only solid.
_____ wave travels on top of the earth.
(In the correct order)