Shake Em Up Shake Em Up
the vibration of the earth produced by the rapid release of energy
What is an earthquake?
A section of the lithosphere that slowly moves over the asthenosphere carrying pieces of continental and oceanic crust
What is a plate?
An opening in the Earth's crust from which lava or molten rock escapes to the surface
What is a volcano?
The remains of this creature has been found in South America and Africa
What is the Mesosaurus?
City destroyed by a earthquake in 1906
What is San Francisco?
The point on the Earth's surface directly above the earthquakes starting point
What is the epicenter?
The three main types of boundaries
What are divergent, convergent and transform boundaries?
Underground igneous rock bodies
What are plutons?
Convergent, transform and divergent
What are the three types of boundaries?
A chain of volcanoes that that are located around the edge of the Pacific Basin
What is the Ring of Fire?
A place within the Earth where an earthquake begins
What is the focus?
Tthis person's hypothesis stated that the continents had once been joined to form a single supercontinent
Who is Alfred Wegner?
Shield, cinder cones and composite cones
What are the three types of volcanoes?
Most deep focus earthquakes are linked to this.
What are ocean trenches?
inner core, outer core, lower mantle, asthenosphere, lithosphere
What are the 5 major layers of the Earth's internal structure
An area of the Earth's surface where no direct seismic waves from a particular earthquake can be detected
What is the shadow zone
Evidence from matching fossils, evidence of rock types, evidence of ancient climates
What is evidence for Wegner's Continental Drift Theory?
the pulverized rock, lava, ash, and other fragments ejected from the vent of a volcano
What is pyroclastic material?
When two continental plates collide with each other and forms a mountain
What is the process when continents converge?
A seismic wave that caused major damage recently in Japan
What is a tsunami?
Most deep focus earthquakes are linked to this.
What are ocean trenches?
Most magma is produced along this plate
What is divergent?