Faults/Boundarys
Volcanoes/ Liquid
Earthquakes
Theories/ Earth
Other
100
What type of fault is the San Andreas Fault in California? (Not Boundary)
What is Strike Slip Fault?
100
How does volcanoes change and effect the environmental atmosphere?
What is water vapor from the volcano mixed with sulfer gases to produce acid rain which will affect plants, other marine animals, and help increase erosion?
100
What are the two scales used to measure the magnitude of an earthquake? What does each scale measure?
What is Richter Scale - how intense the waves were based upon the seismograph and Mercalli Intensity Scale - the intensity of the earthquake waves to harm building structures.
100
What is the name for all the continents put together into one big landmass?
What is Pangaea?
100
What was the device called that searched the ocean floor in order to tell if seafloor spreading was occurring or not?
What is the Glomar Challenger?
200
How do earthquakes occur and where are they more likely to occur?
What is plates move causing vibrations and when faults have added stress? Where - western US and near two plate boundaries.
200
What is the word for when wet soil due to shaking from an earthquake can cause it to act like a liquid?
What is liquefaction.
200
What is the difference between a focus and a epicenter?
What is focus is the point where energy of seismic waves first occurs and is found below the crust? Epicenter- is the point on the surface located directly above the focus.
200
What is the theory called that state that the continental plates moved from a big landmass to their current location today? Who proposed this theory?
What is plate tectonics? Who is Alfred Wegner?
200
What are the 4 layers of the Earth and determine whether solid, liquid, or gas?
What is solid inner core, liquid outer core, liquid mantle, and solid crust.
300
What fault results when you have tension forces that pull rock apart?
What is a normal fault.
300
What is a hot spot and where close to us do they form?
What is a random location where hot rock is forced to the crust where it melts due to the mantle being hotter than normal? They form near the Hawaiian Islands.
300
What instrument is used to measure the magnetic rocks in seafloor spreading?
What is magnetometer.
300
What theory states that new rock was created on both sides of a ridge and cause the plates to want to move? Who proposed this theory?
What is seafloor spreading? Who is Harry Hess?
300
What makes plates move?
What is convection currents in the mantle that cause the plates to want to spread in the lithosphere.
400
What fault results from the compression forces that squeeze rock?
What is a reverse fault?
400
What is an example of volcanoes forming near a convergent boundary?
What is the Andes mountains of South America? Here the oceanic crust is going below the continental crust.
400
What was the worst earthquake to occur? (Hint: We watched a video over it and it happened in 1960)
What is Chile Earthquake?
400
What is the elements found in the inner core and those found in the crust?
What is inner core elements - nickel and iron? Crust - silicon and magnesium.
400
What is the plasticlike layer below the lithosphere?
What is asthenosphere?
500
Name all 3 plate boundaries and give an example of each.
What is divergent, convergent, and transform. Di - Mtns, and Volcanoes, Conv. - Rift Valley and Ridge, Transform - faults (San Andreas)
500
What is an example of volcanoes form at the divergent plate boundaries?
What is the Mid Atlantic Ridge or Iceland?
500
What are the three types of waves and give me one characteristic about their speed and one characteristic about where they travel?
What is primary, secondary, and surface waves? Primary - fastest and goes through the solid inner core and liquid outer core, secondary - 2nd fastest; doesn't go through liquid outer core, and surface- slowest; most destructive, affects the crust.
500
What are the four clues or pieces of evidence that continents could have been connected at one time?
What is fossil clues, climate clues, puzzle like continents, and rock layers the same.
500
What was the fossil of either the plant or animal that helps to prove the theory of tectonic plates?
What is Glossopeteris or Mesosaurus?
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