Earth's Layers & Plates
What is the outermost solid layer of the Earth?
What is Lithosphere?
What is the point underground where an earthquake starts?
What is Focus?
What is magma called when it reaches the surface?
What is Lava?
Who proposed the idea of Continental Drift?
What is Alfred Wegener?
What happens at a convergent boundary?
What is Plates move toward each other?
What is the soft, semi-fluid layer beneath the lithosphere?
What is Asthenosphere?
What is the point on the surface above the focus?
What is Epicenter ?
What type of volcano has gentle slopes and flows easily?
What is Shield Volcano?
What was the name of the ancient supercontinent?
What is Pangaea?
What forms at a divergent boundary on land?
What is Rift Valley?
The Earth's crust and upper mantle are broken into large pieces called what?
What is Tectonic Plates?
What instrument is used to measure earthquakes?
What is seismograph ?
What is A Hot Spot?
What is A location where magma melts through the crust away from a boundary ?
Name one piece of evidence for continental drift.
Matching fossils, rock formations, or climate clues
What happens at a transform boundary?
What is Plates slide past each other?
What is the theory that explains plate movement?
What is Plate Tectonics?
What waves travel outward from the earthquake's focus?
What is Seismic Waves?
What region around the Pacific Ocean is known for many volcanoes?
What is Ring of Fire ?
What dangerous volcanic mudflow threatens areas near Mount Rainier?
What is Lahar?
What large underwater feature forms at divergent boundaries in the ocean?
What is Mid-Ocean Ridge?
What process forms new oceanic crust at mid-ocean ridges?
What is Sea-Floor Spreading?
What is the modern scale used to measure large earthquakes?
What is Moment Magnitude Scale?
What type of volcano is Mount Rainier?
What is Composite Volcano (Stratovolcano)?
Why do scientists monitor volcanoes like Mount Rainier?
What is To warn people of possible eruptions and hazards?
Subduction occurs at which type of plate boundary?
What is Convergent Boundary?