Name the three main kinds of volcanoes
What are shield, cinder-cone, and composite volcanoes?
This describes how fast tectonic plates move
What is 0.6cm-10cm per year?
The key difference between lava and magma
What is lava is molten rock on top of Earth's surface and magma is molten rock under Earth's surface?
What geologists call the plastic-like section of the upper mantle?
What is the the asthenosphere?
This is an area where two plates meet and converge with one plate sinking and one plate being pushed up.
What is a subduction zone?
This is a piece of evidence that proved the idea of plate movement
What is the discovery of identical fossil species on both sides of the ocean basin?
What is the discovery that the coastline of North and South America fit together like puzzle pieces?
The exact point where slippage occurs at a plate boundary that causes an earthquake
What is the hypocenter or focus?
How many plates make up the lithosphere?
What is 8 large plates and many smaller ones?
The activities that occur along the Ring of Fire
What are earthquakes and volcanic eruptions?
Land feature that occurs when two continental plates are pushed together
What are mountains?
The point on the Earth's surface directly about the hypocenter (focus).
What is the epicenter?
Yellowstone is an example of this type of volcano
What is a supervolcano?
The best explanation of why the inner core is solid metal
What is the immense pressure of the weight of Earth?
The characteristics of the 4 main layers of the earth (crust, mantle, inner and outer core)
What is a thin solid crust, a plastic-like mantle, a liquid outer core, and a solid inner core?
Where earthquakes and volcanoes are most often located
What are edges of plate boundaries?