Plate Techtonics
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Tsunamis
Other
100
What do you call it when continents converge?
subduction zone.
100
what causes faults
What is movement of plates
100
what rock type is formed by volcaoes
What is igneous rock
100
what is a tsunami
What is seismic sea waves caused by earthquakes
100
What is the point beneath earths surface where rock breaks under stress
mantle
200
What do you call it when continents move past each other?
What is a transform boundary.
200
what causes earthquakes
What is build up of energy in rocks
200
where can you find volcaoes
What is where plates move apart and together,hot spots
200
T or F tsunamis can travel as fast commercial jets
T
200
what is a wide,gently sloping mountain made of layers of lava and formed by quiet eruptions
What is shield volcano
300
What do you call it when two plates move apart
What is divergent
300
What are normal faults
What is rock above fault surface move downward in relation to rock below fault surface
300
what is a crater
What is steep walled depression around a volcanoes vent
300
T or F tsunamis can reach heights of 30 meters
T
300
huge pieces of earth's crust & upper mantle that move
What is lithosphere
400
What do you call it when two plates move together
What is convergent
400
what are reverse faults
What is rock above fault surface is forced up and over the rock below the fault surface
400
what are hot spots
What is hot rock areas forced toward the crust where it melts partially forms
400
since 1945 more people have been killed by tsunamis than what
earthquakes
400
Plastic like layer of earth
What is asthenosphere
500
What was it called when all the continents were together
What is pangea
500
what are strike-slip fault
What is rocks on other side of the fault are moving past each other without much upward or downward movement
500
what is a tephra
What is bits of rock or solidified lava dropped from the air from a volcano
500
T or F humans can detect vibrations from earthquakes from great distences
F
500
hess's theory that new seafloor is formed when magma is forced upward toward the surface at a mid ocean ridge
What is seafloor spreading
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