Tectonic Plates
Plate Boundaries
Layers of the Earth
Natural Disasters
Vocab
100
The last supercontinent
What is Pangaea?
100
Two plates coming together (colliding) is this type of boundary
What is convergent?
100
We live on this layer.
What is crust?
100
This natural disaster is found with volcanic eruptions at plate boundaries.
What are earthquakes?
100
This scientist came up with Continental Drift
Who is Wegener?
200
The theory that the crust are slowly moving.
What is Continental Drift?
200
Plates divide apart is this type of boundary.
What is divergent?
200
The hottest layer of the Earth?
What is the inner core?
200
This type of natural disaster are always predictable.
What is weather?
200
Landform created at a divergent boundary.
What is mid-ocean ridge?
300
The crust is broken into these.
What are tectonic plates?
300
No landforms are created at this boundary
What is transform?
300
This layer of the Earth is liquid.
What is outer core?
300
This natural disaster is usually caused by earthquakes.
What are tsunamis?
300
Created the hawaiian islands
What is hotspot
400
This is the process that causes the plates to move.
What is Sea Floor Spreading?
400
Convergent boundaries create what type of landform?
What is mountains, trenches, and volcanoes.
400
The state of matter of the Mantle.
What is plastic (flexible solid)?
400
This natural disaster is mitigated by helicopters.
What are wildfires?
400
The name of the fault in California?
What is San Andreas Fault?
500
The tectonic plate we live on?
What is the North American Plate?
500
The divergent boundary between the South American Plate and the African Plate created what landform (be specific).
What is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?
500
The core is mostly made of this element.
What is iron?
500
This natural disaster is a result of limestone erosion.
What are sinkholes?
500
The scale that measures the shaking and damage caused by an earthquake.
What is Modified Mercalli Scale?
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