Volcanoes
An igneous rock similar to pumice but it doesn't float, that is associate with cinder cone volcanoes.
What is scoria?
The San Andreas Fault is and example of what type of plate boundary and what type of fault?
What is a transform boundary and a strike-slip fault?
How many recording stations are needed to determine the epicenter of an Earthquake?
What are three?
The Earth was once a single land mass called ___________ that has since broken apart into pieces that form the continents today.
What is Pangaea?
Name the compositional layers of the Earth in order from the inner most layer to the outer most layer.
What is the core, mantle, and the crust?
Volcanic island chains and other volcanoes that form away from plate boundaries form over this place.
What is a stationary hotspot?
This geologic event can cause a fault.
What is earthquakes?
The strength of the Earthquake.
What is magnitude?
He believed the continents were once together but once drifted together.
Who is Wegner?
This layer is the most like plastic.
What is the asthenosphere?
What are stratovolcanoes?
Convergent boundaries are associated with this type of fault.
What is a reverse fault?
The events that scientists' study to learn about the inside of the Earth.
What are Earthquakes and Volcanoes?
What are geologic evidence and fossil evidence?
The core is composed of these two metals.
This type of volcano produces 10% pyroclastic material and 90% lava.
Extension, fault scarp, and a hanging wall that drops down relative to the faults footwall is a ________ fault.
What is a normal fault?
These waves cause the destruction associated with Earthquakes, there are two types.
What are surface waves? Specifically, What are Love and Rayleigh waves?
The mechanical layers of the Earth that make up the the lithosphere.
What are the crust and upper mantle?
The Earth's magnetic field is created here.
What question best helps us identify how igneous rocks form:
What is: What size are the crystals in the rock?
A mountain that is mostly made up of granite and gneiss (igneous and metamorphic rocks) has a small patch of sandstone (sedimentary rock) at the peak. What processes make this possible?
What is fault movement?
These types of waves are longitudinal, are the first earthquake waves and can travel through liquids and solids.
What are P Waves?
The three types evidence used to prove seafloor spreading has occured.
What is the newer rocks are near the ocean ridges, the temperature is hotter at the ocean ridges, and the magnetic alignment of the rocks flip-flop across the ocean floor?
Uneven heating of the Earth's asthenosphere causes ____________________.
What is movement of tectonic plates?