Continental Drift
Earthquake
Volcano
Ring Of Fire
Plate Boundaries
100
Alfred Wegener
Who is the man who pioneered the continental drift hypothesis?
100
6,000
What is the number of earthquakes that happen each year?
100
Ring Of Fire
Where are 452 volcanoes located?
100
40,000km
What is the length of The Ring Of Fire?
100
Volcanoes are formed and earthquakes occur.
What is the result of two plates colliding?
200
A supercontinent that formed around 300 million years ago
What is Pangea?
200
a few seconds
What is the average length of a earthquake?
200
Magma
What is lava called when it is underground?
200
452
What is the number of volcanoes in The Ring Of Fire?
200
Transform boundaries.
What is where crust is neither produced nor destroyed as the plates slide horizontally past each other?
300
All the earth
What is the greek word Pangea mean?
300
1880
What is the date that the seismograph was invented?
300
Pompeii
What is the worlds biggest eruption?
300
Through the collision of tectonic plates.
How was The Ring Of Fire created?
300
Convergent boundaries.
What is where crust is destroyed as one plate dives under another?
400
Antarctica
What continent was North America attached to?
400
9.5
What is the biggest earthquake ever?
400
Ojos del Salado
What is the worlds tallest volcano?
400
80%
What percent of earthquakes take place in the Ring Of Fire?
400
Two plates pulling apart.
What is a divergent boundary?
500
South America
What is the continent Africa formerly attached to?
500
Chile
What is the place of the biggest earthquake?
500
Kilauea
What is the world's most active volcano?
500
Basin of the Pacific Ocean
where is the Ring Of Fire located?
500
Plate boundary zone.
What is broad belts in which boundaries are not well defined and the effects of plate interaction are unclear?
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