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Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Solar System
Sun
100
Large slabs of the earth's crust that cover the whole surface
What are tectonic plates?
100
A big wave caused by underwater earthquakes.
What is a tsunami?
100
The three types of volcanoes.
What is shield, cinder cone, composite?
100
Used to be a planet but not anymore.
What is Pluto?
100
Star
What is the sun?
200
Tectonic plates move apart
What is a divergent boundary?
200
A large crack in the earth, earthquakes form here.
What is a fault?
200
The most dangerous type of volcano.
What is the composite?
200
Number of planets in the solar system.
What is 8?
200
Photosphere
What is the surface of the sun?
300
The three types of stress.
What is tension, compression, and shear?
300
The three places volcanoes form.
What is hot spots, convergent boundaries, divergent boundaries?
300
The biggest and smallest planet.
What is Jupiter and Mercury?
300
Dark spots on the sun
What is sunspot?
400
Continental Drift
What is the theory that there was once one continent that separated into 7?
400
The type of stress that happens at convergent boundaries.
What is compression?
400
What formed the Hawaiian islands and how.
What is a hot spot, by the ocean crust moving over it.
400
The Earth's only natural satellite.
What is the moon?
400
The sun is this type of "dwarf"
What is yellow.
500
Seafloor Spreading
What is the theory that new ocean crust is made at ocean ridges and destroyed at deep sea trenches?
500
The San Andreas is this type of fault.
What is strike-slip?
500
Underwater volcanoes at divergent boundaries.
What is an ocean ridge?
500
A medium sized star our planets orbit.
What is the sun?
500
Spectrum
What is rainbow of light that allows astronomers to discover what stars are made of?