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One who studies the Earth.
What is a geologist?
100
Name the 4 layers of the Earth.
What are the inner core, outer core, mantle, and crust?
100
Shaking that results from sudden movement of rock along a fault.
What is an Earthquake?
100
Magma becomes this after an eruption.
What is lava?
100
Name 2 precautions or ways to stay safe in an earthquake.
What are (name 2) Duck, cover, and hold, Shut off power Keep extra supplies Bolt heavy objects Prepare for aftershocks?
200
The area beneath the Earth's surface where rock is under stress, triggering earthquakes.
What is the Focus?
200
The layer that is under a lot of pressure, making it solid and dense.
What is the Inner Core?
200
Name 3 types of plate boundaries?
What are sliding (transform) boundaries, colliding (convergent) boundaries, and spreading (divergent) boundaries?
200
The hole at the top of a volcano.
What is the crater?
200
The location of many volcanoes that rim the Pacific Ocean.
What is The Ring of Fire?
300
The area directly above the focus.
What is the Epicenter?
300
The layer that contains the lithosphere and asthenosphere.
What is the Mantle?
300
The geological feature caused by colliding/ convergent plate boundaries.
What are mountains?
300
The 3 cycles or states of volcanoes.
What are Active, Dormant, and Extinct?
300
One way to measure earthquakes by assigning a magnitude number to an earthquake based on seismic waves.
What is the Richter Scale?
400
The theory that continents slowly move across the Earth's surface.
What is Continental Drift Theory?
400
Two types of seismic waves. One moves like an accordion, and the other moves side to side.
What are P-Waves and S-Waves?
400
Breaks in the Earth's crust where rocks slip past each other.
What are Faults?
400
A positive effect of volcanic eruption.
What is (name one) creates land, enriches soil, exposes fossils.
400
Similar plant and animal fossils, climate, and "jigsaw puzzle" shapes of the continents.
What is some evidence of Wegener's Pangea or Continental Drift theory?
500
Tsunami means...
What is Harbor Wave?
500
Direct evidence of what makes up the Earth's interior.
What are rock samples, taken from holes drilled into the earth?
500
Two types of damage caused by earthquakes.
What are (name any two) Shaking Liquefaction After Shocks Tsunamis?
500
A negative effect of volcanic eruptions.
What is (name one) destroys homes, destroys wildlife, creates acid rain.
500
Juan de Fuca, Eurasian, and Indoaustralian.
What are some of the tectonic plates?