Vocabulary
The name of Earth's last major supercontinent.
What is Pangea?
The theory that the continents are moving.
What is continental drift?
The two types of waves that are released when an earthquake happens.
What are P and S waves?
This type of plate boundary is present at the Aleutian Trench.
What is a convergent plate boundary?
The location where two tectonic plates meet is called...
What is Plate Boundary?
The location of an earthquake at the surface of the Earth.
What is the epicenter?
This type of plate boundary is present on the eastern side of the Pacific Plate.
What is a divergent plate boundary?
The actual location underground where an earthquake occurs is called the.
What is the focus?
Proof of continental drift can be seen by looking at the continents and noticing that they fit together like pieces of these.
What is a puzzle?
These waves can travel through both solids and liquids.
What are P-waves?
The direction that the South American Plate moving?
What is West?
The process in the mantle that moves tectonic plates in the crust.
What is convection?
These once living things provide proof that Africa and South America were once connected.
What are fossils?
The process where one tectonic plate is pushed under another.
What is subduction?
The epicenter distance when a P-wave arrives at 2:33am, an S-wave arrives at 2:35am.
What is 1,200 km?
The difference between the arrival time of the P-wave and S-wave during an earthquake
What is lag time?
This feature is responsible for creating the Hawaiian Islands.
What is a Hot Spot?
The time of origin of an earthquake when a P-wave arrived at 2:04 pm and is located 2,ooo km away.
What is 2:00 pm?