Volcanoes
Igneous Rocks
Plate Interactions
Earthquakes
Earth's Composition
100
The largest volcano.
What is a shield volcano?
100
The difference between lava and magma.
What is above versus below the surface?
100
The location you're most likely to find a divergent boundary.
What is the ocean?
100
The most common place of earthquakes.
What are boundaries?
100
The slow moving layer that is not a liquid but a little malleable.
What is the asenthosphere.
200
The two least explosive volcanoes.
What are cinder and scoria volcanoes.
200
The reason for sorting each rock by its color.
What is composition?
200
The oldest crust.
What is continental crust.
200
The center of the earthquake above the ground.
What is the epicenter?
200
The way scientist find data about Earth's interior.
What is the indirect method of analyzing earthquake waves.
300
The thickness of magma.
What is viscous?
300
The names of light versus dark colors.
What are Felsic and Mafic colors?
300
The huge landmass or super continent 200 million years ago.
What is pangea?
300
The center of the earthquake underground.
What is the focus?
300
The difference between continental and oceanic crust.
What is continental is thicker, less dense, and made of most granite versus basalt.
400
The definition of pyroclastics and how they are classified.
What is volcanic debris and sorted in to the sizes ash, lapilli, and blocks and bombs.
400
The definition of rock.
What are solid materials made of mixtures or large aggregates of one or more minerals. (or some pretty cool music)
400
The oceanic crust subducts at this place under the continental crust.
What is a trench.
400
The 2 most common waves in order of arrival.
What is P and S waves.
400
The reason Wegner's hypothesis wasn't accepted by colleagues.
What is the explanation that the continents plowed through the crust.
500
A volcano that forms over hot spots.
What are shield volcanoes?
500
The five texture groups.
What is glassy, fine, coarse, vesicular, porphyritic?
500
The pulling of oceanic crust under continental crust.
What is slab pull
500
The wave that causes the most destruction to due the twisting property.
What are surface waves or Rayleigh and Love waves.
500
The definition of Sea-Floor spreading. The theory explains how Pangaea separated.
What is the theory that crust is formed at mid-ocean ridges, and moves a few cm/yr to each side and destroyed at trenches?
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