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Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Earth's Layers
Boundaries
Plate Movements
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Fill in the blank. An earthquake is the _______ and trembling that results from the movement of rock beneath Earth's surface.
What is shaking.
100
Fill in the blank. Once magma escapes from the volcano and becomes lava, the remaining ________ bubble out.
What is gases.
100
What is the mantle made of?
What is a layer of very hot rock that is solid.
100
The place where two plates move apart, or diverge, is called a?
What is a divergent boundary.
100
Who's hypothesis was that all the continents were once joined together in a single landmass and have since drifted apart?
What is Alfred Wegener.
200
What do geologists use to locate an earthquakes epicenter?
What is seismic waves.
200
What does lava begin as?
What is magma.
200
True or false? The core is made of two parts. If this is true, name the parts.
What is true. A liquid outer core and a solid inner core.
200
What part of Earth's plates meet at plate boundaries?
What is edges of the earth.
200
What does Pangea mean?
What is "all lands".
300
What does the Richter scale measure?
What is the rating of an earthquake's magnitude based on the size of the earthquake's siesmic waves.
300
Where is magma stored in a volcano?
What is the magma chamber.
300
What does lithos mean in Greek? What does asthenes mean in Greek?
What is stone(lithos) and weak(asthenes).
300
The place where two plates come together, or converge, is called a?
What is a convergent boundary.
300
True or false? Wegener used evidence of climate change to support his hypothesis of continental drift.
What is true.
400
What is one of the scales that measures earthquakes?
What is the Mercalli scale, Richter scale, and the Moment Magnitude scale.
400
True or false? As magma rises to the surface, the pressure of the surrounding rock on the magma decreases.
What is True.
400
True or false? The deeper you go into the Earth, the lower the pressure.
What is false. The deeper you go into the Earth, the higher the pressure.
400
True or False? Plate boundaries extend deep into the asthenosphere.
What is False? Plate boundaries extend deep into the lithosphere.
400
How did Wegener know that Europe and North America were once connected?
What is the coal fields that matched up.
500
What kind of numbers does the Mercalli scale use to rank earthquakes by how much they damage?
What is Roman numerals.
500
Fill in the blank. A volcano forms above a ____ ____ when magma errupts through the crust and reaches the surface.
What is hot spot.
500
What is the thickest length in kilometers that the crust can get to?
What is 70 kilometers.
500
A place where two plates slip past each other is called a?
What is a transform boundary.
500
What force is great enough to move the continents?
What is the movement of convection currents in the mantle.