Plate Tectonics
Structure of Earth
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
From Erin
100
Where two plates collide.
What is a convergent boundary?
100
The innermost part of the earth.
What is the inner core?
100
They occur at plate boundaries.
Where do earthquakes occur?
100
The molten rock that spews from a volcano.
What is lava?
100
The 2014 winner was Kogara #BESTHOUSE
Who won the 2014 Music, Dance and Drama Competition?
200
They float on the asthenosphere.
What do the tectonic plates float on?
200
It is thicker under the continents.
Is the crust thicker under the continents or the oceans?
200
A giant and destructive wave caused by an earthquake.
What is a tsunami?
200
Sheild cones, cinder cones and composite cones.
What are the three ways in which volcanoes are formed?
200
The Blue Whale is the largest.
What is the largest animal in the world?
300
Indo-Australian plate.
On what plate is Australia found?
300
It is the upper mantle and the crust.
What is the lithosphere?
300
The Richter Scale.
What is used to measure the strength of an earthquake?
300
The ring of fire?
Where do most deadly volcanoes occur?
300
The winners were the Roosters.
Who won the NRL season in 2013?
400
Alfred Wegener
Who proposed the theory of continental drift?
400
The only layer of the earth which is liquid molten.
What is the outer crust?
400
They travel around the Earth and are more dangerous than P and S waves.
What are Rayleigh and Love waves?
400
They may come from a single vent or a group of vents.
Where do eruptions come from?
400
KOGARA OF COURSE!!!!!
Who will win the Cross Country today?
500
Comparing fossils across different continents, fitting together continent coastlines and matching mountain ranges.
What evidence proves that the continents were once all joined.
500
Convection currents.
What occurs as a result of hot rock rising and cool rock sinking?
500
The point on the earth's surface that is directly above the focus and will suffer the most damage.
What is the epicentre?
500
It kills plants and animals, disrupts the food chain, but in the long term fertilises the soil.
How does a volcano affect the biosphere?
500
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's daughter.
Who is North West?
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