Earth Shift
What is the word for a scientist that studies the earth, including rocks and fossils and what is the name of the study called?
A geologist studies the earth. The study is called geology.
Shaking of the ground caused by a seismic wave near or where the plates of Earth's crust meet.
What is an earthquake?
A wave or series of waves caused by displaced water.
What is a tsunami?
Molten material from Earth's mantle after is has reached Earth's surface.
What is lava?
Movement of sediment from one loaction to another.
What is Erosion?
This is a line where two tectonic plates meet.
What is a fault?
The size or extent of an earthquake.
What is magnitude?
To move into its space and push it out of position.
Molten material from Earth's mantle below Earth's surface.
What is Magma?
The process of breaking rock into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
Sediment compacted together formed where wind, ice, or water break down larger pieces of rock into smaller pieces.
What is a sedimentary rock?
These tools convert the vibrations caused by seismic waves into lines that look like a graph.
What is a seismograph?
Special buoys in the ocean to detect the rise and fall of waves.
What is a tsunameter?
A plume of magma that causes eruptions through Earth's crust without plates interacting.
What is a hot spot?
A strong wind that carried sand and dust through the air.
What is a sandstorm?
This forms when igneous or sedimentary rock is placed under tremendous heat or pressure.
What is a metamorphic rock?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
What are the two types of crust and what are the three ways that they move and how are they moving.
Oceanic and Continental.
Plates move: transform: sliding past; divergent: moving away from each other; convergent: moving toward each other.
Seawalls, natural barriers, and less building in vulnerable areas
What is tsunami preparedness?
This is theory that explains how Earth's crust is made up of plates that move and interact with each other.
What is plate tectonics theory?
A form of mass movement in which a large section of a slope slides downhill all at once.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Give two causes of this?
What is a landslide? Can be caused by volcanic eruptions, gravity, and fires that destroy vegetation.
This is made of magma or lava that has cooled and hardened.
What is igneous rock?
What is the primary cause of an earthquake.
BONUS: Why are earthquakes called natural disasters?
Earthquakes are caused by the movement of tectonic plates. They are called natural disasters because humans do not cause them.
This country experiences the most tsunamis due to where several of Earth's plates meet.
What is Japan?
What are the three types of volcanos? Give their names and definitions.
dormant volcano: has not erupted for a long time but could
active: a volcano that still erupts
extinct: a volcano that is no longer at risk of erupting because it has moved away from plate boundary or hot spot.
Planting more vegetation, building a retaining wall, and using concrete and steel pillars may prevent this.
What are natural and man-made solutions in preventing landslides?