Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Geothermal Energy
Miscellaneous
100
This is the name of the "super continent" that is believed to have existed millions of years ago that contained all of today's continents in one land mass.
What is Pangaea?
100
This is the point on the surface directly above the place rocks broke to cause a quake.
What is the epicenter?
100
This is the name of the volcanic belt that surrounds the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Ring of Fire?
100
This is what causes geothermal energy.
What is magma heating underground water?
100
This is what happens to temperature and pressure as you get closer to Earth's core.
What is they both increase?
200
He is the scientist who first believed that the continents were once joined into one large land mass.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
200
These are two devices that can be used to monitor faults.
What are tilt meters, creep meters, laser-ranging devices, GPS?
200
These are two types of lava and their descriptions.
What is pahoehoe: thin, low viscosity; aa: thick, high viscosity?
200
This country has many pockets of geothermal energy because it is located at the beginning of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
What is Iceland?
200
This is the type of volcanic cone that makes up Mt. St. Helens.
What is a composite cone?
300
This is believed to be responsible for Earth's magnetic field.
What is the convection current in the outer core?
300
These are the names and descriptions of the three types of earthquake waves.
What is p-wave (first, fastest, travels through solids and liquids, moves back and forth); s-wave (second, travels through solids only, moves side to side); surface waves (last, up and down movement
300
This is the difference between a hotspot volcano and an island arc.
What is a hotspot occurs at a weak spot in a plate and does not occur at a plate boundary.....an island arc always occurs at a plate boundary?
300
This is one use of geothermal energy.
What is heating homes or electricity generation?
300
This is the nameof the scientist who devised the thoery of seafloor spreading.
Who is Harry hess?
400
These are two pieces of evidence supporting the idea that the continents were once joined.
What is fossils of animals and plants in places they would not be otherwise; "matching" mountain ranges; glacier marks in tropical areas; "matching" coal fields?
400
This is how geologists locate the epicenter of an earthquake.
What is "measure the difference in arrival times between P and S waves at three seismograph locations. Use that to determine the distance of each siesmograph from the epicenter. Draw a circle with a radius equal to the distance from the epicenter around each seismograph. Where the circles all meet is the epicenter."?
400
These are the three types of volcanic cones and the type of eruption(s) that form each.
What is "shield cone: quiet eruption; cinder cone: explosive/pyroclastic eruption; composite cone: both quiet and explosive eruptions."?
400
This is the definition of a geyser.
What is a fountain of hot water and steam that erupts from the ground?
400
This is how many active volcanoes are currently known to exist ON LAND.
What is 600?
500
These are the three types of plate boundaries and the direction of movement associated with each.
What is divergent (move apart); convergent (move together); transform (slide past)?
500
These are the three types of faults that exist, the type of boundary at which each is located and the type of stress present there.
What is "normal: divergent boundary, tension; reverse: convergent boundary, compression; strike-slip: transform boundary, shearing."?
500
This is how volcanoes, earthquakes and plate tectonics are all related.
What is "the movement of tectonic plates causes stretching, breaking and weak spots in the crust. The breaking causes vibrations which are earthquakes and weak spots allow magma to reach the surface which are volcanoes."?
500
This is how geothermal energy can be used to generate electricity.
What is the steam from the hot water can be used to turn the turbine in a power plant to generate electricity.
500
These are two ways a building can be made more earthquake proof.
What is placing springs or rubber pads under the foundation, using more flexible building materials and anchoring it to solid rock?
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