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Earthquakes
Earth's Interior
Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics
Plate Tectonics
Volcanoes
100
The study of earthquakes
What is seismology
100
What are the 2 types of crusts
What is continental and oceanic crust
100
Name of super continent
What is Pangaea
100
True/False Continental plates are thinner than oceanic plates
What is false
100
A volcano can erupt _______ and ___________.
What is mildly and violently
200
Hypothesis that describes how an earthquake takes place
What is Elastic Rebound Hypothesis
200
crust and outer mantle are all apart of which zone
What is lithosphere
200
Who came up with the hypothesis of Continental Drift
Who is Alfred Wegner
200
Where does a ridge form
What is rift
200
Name the 2 types of lava
What is Aa and Pahoehoe lava
300
range that predicts that an earthquake will occur soon
What is short range prediction
300
as you go down in earth the viscousity...
What is decreases
300
A break or split in a divergent boundary
What is rift
300
Area of magma that is hot and rises up
What is mantle plume
300
Name the smallest type of volcano
What is a Cinder Cone Volcano
400
When solid soil is saturated with water and acts like a liquid
What is liquifaction
400
Name the zones based on chemical composition
What is crust, outer mantle, inner mantle, outer core, inner core
400
Name 3 types of evidence for continental drift
What is continental shape, matching fossils, rock types, geologic structures, and ancient climate
400
When rock hardens and the magnetic field of rock lines up with the magnetic field of earth
What is paleomagnetism
400
Name the 3 types of Pyroclastic materials in order from smallest to biggest
What is Dust/ash, Cinder/lapilla, block and lava bomb.
500
The paper on which the pen of a machine the measures earthquakes writes on
What is seismogram
500
Thought to have created the magnetic field of Earth
What is outer core
500
Boundary that makes more lithposphere
What is divergent boundary
500
plate motion where plates are pushed up a little then slide down
What is ridge push
500
When a whole volcano collapses onto the magma chamber it creates a ...
What is Caldera