The solid, rocky surface of the earth, including the oceans.
(Inner core, Upper Mantle, or Lithosphere)
What is Lithosphere?
100
Scientists who study volcanoes.
(Meteorologists, Seismologists, or Volcanologist)
What is a volcanologist?
100
The shaking or trembling of the earth that is caused by volcanic or tectonic plate activity.
What is an earthquake?
100
There are 8 continents that make up the dry land of the earth.
(True or False)
What is False? There are 7 continents.
100
A sedimentary rock commonly found in Florida, contains many fossils, and is the favorite rock of Geologist Andrew Petric.
What is Limestone?
200
Scientists who study geology, the scientific study of the earth and its structure.
What is Geologist?
200
A pattern of volcanoes around the edge of the Pacific Ocean.
(Ring of Fire, Tectonic Plates, or Extinct Volcanoes)
What is the Ring of Fire?
200
Scientist who studies seismic waves and earthquakes.
(Earthquakologist, Volcanologist, or Seismologist)
What is a Seismologist?
200
The island formed from lava from volcanoes.
(Continental Island, Oceanic Island, or Reef Island)
What is Oceanic Island?
200
Rock that is formed by high temperatures and pressures; for example quartz and marble.
(Igneous rock, Metamorphic rock, or Sedimentary rock)
What is Metamorphic rock?
300
The outer layer of the earth's surface.
What is crust?
300
Volcanoes that are not currently erupting but are believed to be capable of doing so.
(Dormant Volcanoes, Active Volcanoes, or Extinct Volcanoes)
What is Dormant Volcanoes?
300
Earthquake waves that move on the earth's surface that do the most damage to human life and property.
(Body Waves, Seismic Waves, or Surface Waves)
What is Surface Waves?
300
A coastline that is flooding because the tectonic plates are sinking or erosion has decreased the height of the land or water levels are rising.
(Emergent coastline, Submergent coastline, or Beach coastline)
What is Submergent coastline?
300
The breakdown of rock into smaller pieces through the exposure to wind, water, heat, and cold.
(Erosion, Weathering, or Transportation)
What is Weathering?
400
The theory that tectonic plates move around the earth surface.
(Transform boundaries, Geography, or Plate Tectonics)
What is plate tectonics?
400
A broad, low, curved volcano named after the shape of a Roman Shield.
(Cinder cone volcano, Composite volcano, Shield volcano, or Fissure Volcano)
What is a Shield Volcano?
400
The most famous scientific earthquake measure and it measures earthquakes based on seismograph readings.
(Sliding Scale, Seismic Scale, or Richter Scale)
What is Richter Scale?
400
Refers to the unified supercontinent that eventually split into seven continents.
(Plate Tectonics, Pangea, North America, or Eurasia)
What is Pangea?
400
The movement or weathered material by gravity, wind, and water.
(Mechanical Weathering, Chemical Weathering, or Erosion)
What is Erosion?
500
When two tectonic plates move toward each other. (Transform boundary, Convergent boundary, or Divergent Boundary)
What is Convergent boundary?
500
3 ways volcanoes are helpful to humans.
What is giving fertile soil, rock and mineral sources, give energy to heat water and houses, preserve human history, homes are made using the rock?
500
An earthquake on the scale of (4-6) where it is difficult to stand or walk, things rattle and shake, furniture moves or breaks.
(Mild earthquake, Moderate earthquake, or Severe earthquake)
What is a Moderate earthquake?
500
The scientist who saw that the continents might have once fit together and came up with the Continental Drift Theory - that all the earth's continents are drifting due to the movement of the tectonic plates.
(Alfred Einstein, Alfred Wegener, or Alfred E. Newman)
What is Alfred Wegener?
500
When magma cools it becomes this rock. When this rock melts it becomes magma.
(Sedimentary Rock, Igneous Rock, or Metamorphic Rock)