Plate Boundaries
Energy
Continental Drift
Volcanoes and Earthquakes
Identifying Rocks
100
This event is likely to form at ANY type of plate boundary.
What is an earthquake?
100
Buring fossil fuels is considered to be this.
What is a non-renewable resource?
100
One landmass that contained all of the landmasses 250 million years ago.
What is Pangea?
100
This event occurs very quickly compared to the processes of weathering, erosion, and formation of soil.
What is an earthquake?
100
This extrusive igneous rock is usually dark-colored, and it is as smooth as glass.
What is obsidian?
200
Mountains are created at this type of plate boundary.
What is a convergent boundary?
200
This is an example of a renewable source of energy.
What is wind, water, solar, geothermal, or biomass?
200
The scientist who proposed the theory of continental drift.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
200
This device measures the waves produced by an earthquake.
What is a seismograph?
200
This type of rock generally has bands/stripes and very small crystals.
What is a metamorphic rock?
300
Plates slide past each other in opposite directions.
What is a transform plate boundary?
300
This component turnes chemical energy into thermal energy.
What a boiler?
300
Satellites and lasers have measured this at an average of 2 centimeters.
What is the amount that plates move each year?
300
This type of magma will create explosive eruptions.
What is "more gassy" magma?
300
This common Indiana rock is sedimentary, and it is dissolved easily by groundwater.
What is limestone?
400
New ocean floor is created at this plate boundary.
What is a divergent plate boundary?
400
Type of energy that is produced directly from a turbine.
What is wind energy?
400
This country is isolated on its own tectonic plate, which explains its movement over time.
What is India?
400
This measures how destructive an earthquake was (how much damage was done).
What is the Mercalli scale?
400
This type of sedimentary rock is formed from shells that cement together.
What is coquina?
500
This type of plate tends to subduct under another because it is very dense.
What is an oceanic plate?
500
Another name for energy created by water.
What is hydroelectric?
500
This plant fossil was found in southern Africa, South America, Australia, Antarctica, and India.
What is Glossopteris?
500
This is another name for a composite volcano.
What a stratovolcano?
500
This metamorphic rock was originally granite.
What is marble?
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