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Earth Layers
Stresses/Faults
Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
100
What is the mantle?
What is the layer of hot, solid material between the Earth's crust and outer core?
100
What is compression?
What stress causes a reverse fault?
100
What is Pangaea?
What is the continent the world used to be?
100
What is the epicenter/hypocenter?
What is the point above the rupture?
100
What is a large chain of volcanoes and mountains in the Pacific Ocean?
What is the Ring of Fire?
200
What is the Crust?
What is the top layer of rock that forms the surface of the Earth?
200
What is tension?
What kind of stress causes a normal fault?
200
What is the person who thought that the Earth's continents had moved?
What is Alfred Wegner?
200
What is the hanging wall?
What is the fault above the focus?
200
What is a weak spot in the crust where magma rises to the surface?
What is a volcano?
300
What is the Inner Core?
What is the layer of the Earth that is dense, and made up of both Solid Iron and Nickel?
300
What is shear?
What kind of stress causes strike-slip faults?
300
What are: divergent, convergent, and transform?
What are the types of boundaries?
300
What is the focus?
What is the point where the rupture starts?
300
Where is at a mid-ocean ridge, which mark plate boundaries?
Where is a common place where volcanoes are?
400
What is the Outer Core?
What is the layer of the Earth that has molten iron and nickel?
400
What is stretching rock apart?
What does tension do?
400
What is c, (Divergent boundary)?
Which of the following causes a rift valley? (a) A convergent boundary (b) A transform boundary (c) A divergent boundary
400
What is the fault below the focus?
What is the footwall?
400
What is divergent plate boundaries on land?
What is another place volcanoes form?
500
What are continental and oceanic crust?
What are the different types of crust?
500
What is compression pushes rock together?
What is compression?
500
What is the continents drifted together at one point and formed Pangaea?
What is the theory Alfred Wegner had?
500
What are seismic waves?
What are the waves caused by an earthquake?
500
What is an island?
What is a landform that is caused by volcanoes?