Earthquakes
An opening in Earth's crust where molten material is expelled.
What is a volcano?
What are transform plate boundaries?
Two plates moving towards each other
What are convergent tectonic plate boundaries?
Large broken slabs / pieces of Eart's crust
What are tectonic plates?
Earthquakes form at these type of plate boundaries.
Convergent and transform plate boundaries.
What is the most famous volcano in the world because people were frozen in time, covered in ash? (Italy)
What is Mt. Vesuvius?
Describe how continents "drift"
Continents are on tectonic plates.
Tectonic plates move on top of the asthenosphere (molten magma) due to convection currents.
What do we call plates that are pulling away from each other?
What are diverging tectonic plates?
The _________________ is the surface location directly above the earthquake.
What is the epicenter
Volcanoes typically form at these types of plate boundaries.
Convergent plate boundary.
What is the zone called where one plate is diving under another plate?
What is Subduction zone
What causes earthquakes? Write a full sentence answer.
Earthquakes are caused by the movements or shifts of tectonic plates.
What are faults?
Faults are similar to boundaries, there are 3 types of faults, they are basically cracks in tectonic plates.
How to reduce damage from volcanic eruptions and earthquakes?
Early warning system
Explain how volcanoes are formed, use a full sentence.
They are formed under subduction plates
The teacher will decide accuracy of answers.
What was the scientific name for when all the continents we together as one?
What is Pangea?
What is the instrument called that measures the size of an earthquake?
What is a seismograph?
This is used to determine the magnitude of an earthquake
What is the Richter Scale?