Earthquakes
Earth's Interior
Plate Tectonics
Volcanoes
Continental Drift Theory
100
Seismology
What is the study of earthquakes?
100
Layer that is made of a taffy like material
What is the mantle or middle and lower mantle?
100
Causes the plates to move.
What are convection currents?
100
Someone who studies volcanoes.
No, not a Vulcan, a Volcanologist
100
Continental Drift Theory
What is the idea that the continents will move around the forming supercontinents?
200
The seismic wave that arrives the fastest
What is the P wave?
200
The heat energy transfer shown in this picture that causes the plates to move.
What are convection currents?
200
Place where two tectonic plates meet.
What are plate boundaries?
200
This volcano only produces cinder and ash when it erupts.
What is a cinder cone volcano?
200
He coined the phrase Continental Drift Theory.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
300
Focus
Where does the earthquake start along the faultline?
300
Layers that make up the lithosphere.
What is the crust and mantle?
300
Plate movement that causes the formation of trenches.
What are convergent subduction boundaries?
300
This volcano produces both lava, ash and cinders when it erupts.
What is a composite or strato volcano?
300
Two clues that support Continental Drift Theory.
What are fossil records, rock formations, mountain ranges all found on different continents that are now separated by the oceans?
400
Earthquakes occur along these.
What are plate boundaries or faultlines?
400
layers made of nickel and iron.
What are the inner and outer core?
400
Plate movement caused by the movement of magma up between two oceanic plates.
What is a divergent (spreading) boundary?
400
Volcanos form at these two types of plate boundaries.
What are Convergent Subduction and Divergent/Spreading boundaries?
400
Name of the last supercontinent.
Pangaea
500
The push and pull affect of a P wave.
What is compression?
500
The reason we know the earth's interior is made of different layers.
What are seismic waves (earthquake waves) or P and S waves.
500
The area of high volcanic and earthquake activity that surrounds the pacific ocean.
What is the Ring of Fire?
500
This type of volcano forms the Hawaiian islands.
What is a Shield Volcano?
500
This ocean is getting larger because of Continental Drift.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?