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Plate Tectonics
Plate Boundaries and Features
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Rock Cycle
100
Which layer is more dense, continental or oceanic crust?
What is oceanic crust
100
What are the three plate boundaries?
What is convergent, divergent, and transform.
100
What volcano has gentle slope, gentle eruption and thin/multiple layers?
What is a shield volcano
100
True or False? Earthquakes mostly occur on plate boundarys.
What is True
100
What are the three methods of formation?
What is Clastic, Chemical, and Organic
200
Who is Alfred Wegner
What is a sceintistic who researched and proposed continental drift. Pangea is an example.
200
What is the name of the one continent that existed befor continental drift?
What is Pangea.
200
What are the three zones where volcanoes form?
What is rift zone, subduction zone, hot spot.
200
In what order do waves come?
What is p waves, s waves, surface waves
200
When rock fragments form from pre existing and then get compressed what method of formation is it?
What is clastic
300
Why did people not believed Alfrred Wegners theroy of continenhtal drift?
What is people didnt see how to plates could move apart and he didnt have much evidence.
300
When convergent ocean to ocean occur what happens?
What is subduction occurs which forms a trench with features such as volcanic island arc and trench
300
This type of magma is runny, less viscous, and low amount of dissovled gases.
What is mafic magma