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The Drifters
Volcanoes, Lava, and Magma
Shakes and Quakes
Put it on the Plate
100
When continents move apart.
What is Continental Drift?
100
The three main types of vocanoes.
What are Shield Volcanoes, Cinder Cones and Composite Cones?
100
Vibrations of the earth's surface because of the release of energy.
What are Earthquakes?
100
Two plates hit together.
What is convergent boundaries?
200
The German scientist that proposed the theory of continental drift.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
200
A steep walled depression located at the summit of a volcano.
What is a Crater?
200
Fractures or cracks in the crust of the earth.
What are faults?
200
Two plates grind/slide against each other in opposite directions, but the surface stays the same.
What is transform fault boundaries?
300
Demonstrates that continents might have fit together at one time.
What is Continental Shapes?
300
During explosive eruptions, gases escape through this opening to the surface.
What is a vent?
300
Center of the earth; part liquid, part solid.
What is the core?
300
Plates spread. upwelling occurs, and ridges are creaded on the seafloor.
What are divergent boundaries?
400
Fossil evidence for continental drift where matching fossils are found on different landmasses.
What are Matching Fossils?
400
A large depression in a volcano.
What is a caldera?
400
Large wave caused by an earthquake underwater.
What is a tsunami?
400
The lithosphere is divided into these segments which move and continually change shape and size.
What are plates?
500
Single super continent based on the continental drift hypothesis.
What is Pangaea?
500
Particles produced during a volcanic eruption.
What is Pyroclastic Material?
500
Method for pinpointing the location of the earthquake.
What is triangulation?
500
The process by which plate techtonics produces new oceanic lithoshpere.
What is Seafloor Spreading?