Plate Tectonics (Basic)
The Earth's most recent Supercontinent.
What is Pangea?
The big opening of a Volcano
What is Crater?
Waves from Earthquakes that cause destruction.
What is Secondary Waves?
Clouds the air after a Volcanic Eruption.
What is Ash?
When two plates slide past each other.
What is Transform Boundary?
Proposed the theory of Continental Drift.
What is Alfred Wegener?
The ocean most volcanoes surround.
What is Pacific Ocean?
The fastest wave that forms from an Earthquake.
What is Primary Wave?
What is Breathing Problems?
When two plates push together.
What is Convergent Boundary?
The speed of Earth's Tectonic Plates.
What is Slow?
The multiple, smaller openings of a Volcano.
What is Vents?
The position where an Earthquake starts.
What is Focus?
The most likely cause to humans, after a Geo-hazard.
What is Death/Injury?
Another name for a Divergent Boundary.
What is Normal Fault?
The reason for our most recent Supercontinent splitting into many parts.
What is Tectonic Plates?
Magma that is exposed to Earth's Surface, through Volcanic Erruptions.
What is Lava?
The point above a Focus.
What is Epicenter?
Convection currents do/do not help Geo-hazards?
What is Do?
Hangs below an Inclined Fault.
What is Footwall?
The reason our Tectonic Plates move.
What is Mantle Convection?
A type of Volcano, that is the least dangerous.
What is Shield Volcano?
The most dangerous type of wave that emits from Earthquakes.
What is Surface Wave?
Areas that receive the most damage from Geo-hazards.
What is Urban Locations?
When two plates meet, to form a Trench.
What is Convergent Boundary?