Plate Tectonics
The idea that the earth's plates are constantly being moved in different directions by molten rock in the mantle
What is Plate Tectonics
A person who studies volcanoes is called?
What is Volcanologist
Vibrations caused by movement under the earth, sometimes causing damage to the crust and what is on it is called?
What is Earthquake
What is the Ring of Fire?
What is the area where many volcanoes and earthquakes occur
Boundaries that are moving toward one another are called?
What is Convergent Boundaries
What is Magma
A person who studies earthquakes is called?
What is Seismologist
After plates continue to strike one another (slide past), weak spots in the plates form what?
What is Faults
Boundaries that move away from one another are called?
What is Divergent Boundaries
An opening of a volcano through which lava pours is called?
What is Vent
The scale used to show the strength of an earthquake is called?
What is Richter Scale
The idea that the Earth was one super continent
What is Pangaea
What is Subducting
A volcano that forms from cinders, rock, and ash material is called?
What is Cindercone Volcano
The first seismic waves sent out are?
What is P Waves (primary waves)
What is the fault line that is in Missouri and Illinois?
What is New Madrid Fault
Transform boundaries cause what type of natural disaster?
What is Earthquakes
The Hawaiian Islands are formed from what?
What is Hot Spots
S waves can travel through what?
What is Solid Rock
What is the highest magnitude recorded from an earthquake?
What is 9.5