Vocab
Earth
Plate Tectonics
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
100
The topic for this game
What is plate tectonics
100
The earth's outer shell
What is lithosphere
100
The geoscientific theory developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s
What is sea floor spreading
100
A mountain or hill that releases lava
What is a volcanoe
100
Also known as a quake or tremor
What is an earthquake
200
Plate tectonics can cause ______ disasters
What is natural disasters
200
The earth has _____ layers
What is four
200
The place were plates meet is the ______ ________
What is plate boundary
200
_______ and ________ causes volcanoes to erupt
What is diverting and conversing
200
Measures the frequency, type, and size
What is a seismometer
300
The thinnest layer of the earth
What is the crust
300
Center of the earth
What is inner core
300
The scientific name for plates spreading apart
What is divergent boundary
300
Volcanoes are usually not created by ________
What is sliding past each other
300
Earthquakes can sometimes cause _____
What is tsunamis
400
Measure of energy of an earthquake
What is magnitude
400
There are _____ major plates of the earth
What is seven
400
The scientific name for plates moving together
What is convergent boundary
400
Volcanoes are _______ and cause _______
What is hazardous and destruction
400
Earthquakes are caused when plates _____
What is slide
500
Where energy is released to create earthquakes
What is focus
500
Part of the upper layer
What is asthenosphere
500
The scientific name for plates sliding under each other.
What is transform
500
Very hot lava that is found in large quantities
What is hotspots
500
Measures of intensity of shaking
What is mercalli scale
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