Earth's Structure
This is Triggering
Words on Fire
What on Earth!
Supercontinent
100
What layer of the Earth is made of the crust and mantle and demonstrates plate tectonic activity?
What is Lithosphere
100
This scale is used to measure the amount of energy released during an Earthquake!!!
What is the Richter Scale?
100
Fossils and rock layers are made of this type of rock.
What is Sedimentary Rock?
100
This is how old the Earth is (approximately).
What is 4.52 billon years old?
100
This German Geologist hypothesized that there was a gigantic supercontinent 200 million years ago.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
200
This type of boundary causes seafloor spreading.
What is a divergent bounday?
200
Hot molten or semifluid rock erupted from a volcano
What is lava?
200
This type of boundary between Earth's plates can produce volcanoes.
What is Convergent Plate Boundary?
200
Humans are included in which Era, Paleozoic, Mesozoic or Cenozoic?
What is Cenozoic?
200
This is the main cause for continental drift.
What is plate tectonics?
300
These are the two types of plates found on the Earth's surface.
What are Continental and Oceanic?
300
This is a string of underwater volcanoes and earthquake sites around the edges of the Pacific Ocean.
What is The RING OF FIRE
300
This is the term used to describe how Earth's continents have moved apart over time.
What is Continental Drift?
300
This was identified as the first index fossil.
What are Trilobites?
300
Alfred Wegener's name for the supercontinent.
What is Pangea?
400
The process in which a dense plate is forced under a less dense plate creating trenches and triggering volcanic activity and earthquakes.
What is subduction?
400
The semi-molten rock found beneath the surface of the Earth
What is Magma?
400
Intrusions are made of this type of rock as seen in this picture.
What is Igneous Rock?
400
Name the plate boundaries.
What are Divergent, Convergent and Transform?
400
The word Geo means what?
What is Earth?
500
This happens when warm air/material rises and cooler air/materials sinks.
What are convection currents?
500
The names of the 2 volcanists that traveled to chase volcanic activity in Fire of Love.
Who is Ketia and Maurice?
500
This type of Relative dating is like the Law of Superposition but describes fossils.
What is Biostratigraphy?
500
The 1st Reptiles were found during this Period.
What is Permian?
500
Alfred Wegener's evidence for Pangaea was what?
What are fossils of prehistoric animals and plants, jigsaw fit, Paleoclimate evidence, Geological Similarities?