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Plate Tectonics
Plate Tectonics
Scientists believe that the earth is made of this many tectonic plates.
What is 13?
The top of a mountain is called this.
What is a summit?
This is the cause of earth quakes.
What is tectonic plate movement?
Friction and pressure will have his effect on a volcano.
What is an eruption?
The center of the earth.
What is the inner core?
Scientists suspect that the earth is made of this many small plates and this many large plates.
What are 6 small plates and 7 larger plates?
A series of mountains in a given area is called this.
What is a mountain range?
The land above where the earth quake takes place is called this.
What is the epicenter?
There are this many types of volcanos.
What is three?
This type of rock is made under heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
The theory that the earths crust is made of plates.
What is the theory of plate tectonics?
This land that naturally rises higher then the land surrounding it. It usually has steep sides leading to a summit.
What is a mountain?
Where two tectonic plates meet.
What is a fault or fault line?
Volcanoes can emit several types of material. Name at least three.
What are bombs, lava, ash, gas, cinders?
During this period of time the northern of hemisphere was almost completely covered with ice.
What is the Ice Age?
This is the name of the super continent that scientists believe existed before the flood.
What is Pangea?
Mountains are categorized by how they were...
What is how they are formed or made?
This tool is used to measure the intensity of a quake.
What is a seismograph?
When a volcano has not erupted for over 50 years it is considered to be this.
What is extinct?
This Biblical event was a punishment for sin.
What was the flood?
The movement of the earths plates is called this.
What is continental Drift?
These are the 5 types of mountains.
What are fold, fault-block, dome, volcanic and plateau?
When a quake happens under the water, the result can be one of these huge walls of water.
What is a tsunamis?
Volcanoes and earth quakes have this is common.
What is location on tectonic plates?
Coal, natural gas and oil are examples of this amazing resource.
What are fossil fuels?