Misc.
Layers of the Earth
Plate Tectonics
Faults and Boundaries
Earthquakes and Volcanoes
100
This is the name of the supercontinent that once existed millions of years ago.
What is Pangaea?
100
This is the largest layer of the Earth.
What is the mantle?
100
This is the process of heated mantle rising and cool mantle falling that causes the plates to move.
What is convection currents?
100
This is the type of boundary where earthquakes occur.
What is a transform boundary?
100
This is the opening in which a volcano erupts from.
What is a vent?
200
This is the name of a mid-ocean ridge on continents.
What is a rift valley?
200
This is the least dense layer of the Earth; BE VERY SPECIFIC.
What is continental crust?
200
This is the LANDFORM (not boundary) where sea-floor spreading occurs.
What is a mid-ocean ridge?
200
This is the type of fault that is associated with a convergent boundary.
What is a reverse fault?
200
This is the order in which the three seismic waves arrive.
What is P waves, then S waves, then Surface waves?
300
This is the four evidences of Pangaea.
What is fossils, climate clues, rock clues, and the puzzle pieces?
300
This is the layer which is COMPLETELY liquid.
What is the outer core?
300
This is the breaking of rock due to the amount of force applied.
What is a fault?
300
This is the three types of forces, that when stress is applied in large amounts, will eventually cause faults.
What is compression, tension, and shearing forces?
300
This is the way seismologists can study the distance an earthquake is from a seismograph.
What is study the difference in arrival times between the P waves and S waves?
400
This is the layer of the Earth that includes both the crust AND a small section of the upper mantle.
What is the lithosphere?
400
This is the material both the mantle and core are made of.
What is iron?
400
This is the type of FAULT that is located between the Pacific Ocean and California.
What is a strike-slip fault?
400
This is a volcano formed by a mixture of cinders and lava.
What is a composite volcano?
500
This is the result of movement in the Outer Core.
What is Earth's magnetism?
500
These three properties increase with depth.
What is density, pressure, and temperature?
500
This is the type of crust that is sub ducted at a subduction zone, and the type of LANDFORM it forms.
What is oceanic crust and volcanos?
500
This is type of fault, boundary, and force that occurs at a subduction zone.
What is reverse, convergent, and compressional?
500
This is how scientists know the layers of the Earth.
What is studying of the movement of seismic waves through the Earth?
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