Vocabulary
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Plate Boundaries
Plate Tectonics
100
a break in the crust
What is a fault?
100
This volcano destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum.
What is Mt. Vesuvius?
100
The device that measures the strength of the earthquake
What is a seismograph?
100
the boundary that plates come together
What is a convergent boundary?
100
He proposed the theory of Continental Drift
Who is Alfred Wegner?
200
These are Convergent, Divergent, and Transform ____________
What are Boundaries?
200
This is a volcano in Washington State that blew it's top in 1980
What is Mt. St. Helens?
200
the piece of paper that shows the S, P, and Surface waves
What is a seismogram?
200
the boundary that plates come apart at
What is a Divergent Boundary?
200
the last known super-continent
What is Pangaea?
300
The point under the break in the Earth's surface
What is the focus?
300
This shield volcano is the most active of the five islands that make up the island of Hawaii, Hawaii
What is Mt. Kilauea?
300
the title of a person that studies earthquakes
Who is a Seismologist?
300
The boundary that the plates slide past each other
What is a Transform Boundary?
300
When a continental and oceanic crusts converge, this is the part of the oceanic crust that goes under the continental
What is the Subduction Zone?
400
During an earthquake, this is the point above the focus
What is an epicenter?
400
This volcano in the country of Indonesia. The volcano and the island that it is on shares a name.
What is Mt. Krakatoa?
400
the first two waves that are produced because of the earthquake
What are the P-Waves and S-Waves?
400
Name the three forces at convergent, divergent, and transform boundaries
What is compression, tension, and shear?
400
These are the two continents that seem to fit together that support the theory of continental drift
What are South America and Africa?
500
this ocean is getting bigger and bigger each year be cause of this reason
What is the Atlantic because of Sea-Floor Spreading?
500
Where the magma is stored in the volcano
What is the magma chamber?
500
the last time an earthquake was felt in Toccoa
When was is Friday February 14, 2014, or Valentine's Day, 2014?
500
The San Andreas Fault in California is this type of boundary
What is a transform boundary?
500
these are some of the older pieces of evidence for continental drift
What are fossils, climate change, glacial striations, plants, and mountain range matches?
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