Plate Tectonics
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Mountains
Mixed Review
100
The name for all Earth's continents joined as a single supercontinent that existed 20mya
What is Pangaea?
100
The most eruptive type of volcano
What is composite?
100
Measure of the energy released by a quake
What is magnitude?
100
Continental-continental plate collisions produce ____.
What is very tall mountains?
100
In terms of age, the oceanic crust along deep-sea trenches is much ________ than the oceanic crust along mid-oceanic ridges.
What is older?
200
Continental drift was not widely accepted when it was first proposed because Wegener could not explain ____.
What is what or how caused them to move?
200
Volcanic fragments thrown into air during a volcanic eruption
What is tephra?
200
most earthquakes occur along this
What is the Ring of Fire? or Circum-Pacific belt?
200
the tallest type of mountains occur at this type of convergent boundary.
What is continental-continental?
200
Deformation of materials in response to stress
What is strain?
300
Crust is neither destroyed nor formed along this type of boundary?
What is transform?
300
Depression that forms when the top or side of a volcano collapses into the magma chamber
What is a caldera?
300
Section of an active fault that has not experienced a significant earthquake for a long time
What is a seismic gap?
300
The San Andreas Fault, a result of horizontal shear, is a ____ fault
What is strike-slip?
300
process whereby the weight of an uplifted ocean ridge pushes an oceanic plate toward a subduction zone
What is ridge push?
400
This was found in Antarctica that suggested the continent had once been part of a temperate, and rainy climate.
What is coal beds?
400
like tephra, this is projected into the air from a volcano as lava, but it cools into rock before it hits the ground.
What is volcanic bombs?
400
This seismic wave is a body wave that moves back and forth in the direction of the wave.
What is a P-wave?
400
Mountains that form when large pieces of crust are tilted, uplifted, or dropped between large faults
What is fault-block mountains?
400
Condition of equilibrium whereby Earth’s crust is balanced by the upward force of buoyancy and the downward force of gravity
What is isostasy?
500
The study of Earth’s magnetic record
What is paleomagnetism?
500
The hawaiian islands are volcanoes that formed over this.
What is a hot spot?
500
The measurement of time elapse between the first P and S wave is called this.
What is a seismogram?
500
mountains are eroded over hundreds of millions of years, while the crust below them rises.
What is isostatic rebound?
500
Three of the four pieces of evidence that Wegener used to support his theory of continental drift.
What is fossils, climatic data, matching rock formations, and the jigsaw (matching) coastlines?
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