Famous People
The greatest teacher in the world.
Who is Mr. Peyrot/Ms. Romero
This is what liquid rock is called when it reaches the surface.
What is lava?
These are what the lines are called that show glaciers moved from one point to another.
What are striations?
The name of the crust where the plates are located.
What is the Lithosphere?
Pacific, South American, North American, Eurasian, African, Indo-Australian, and Antarctic.
What are the 7 major tectonic plates?
This person came up with the idea of Continental Drift.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
This type of volcano can have explosive eruptions and dangerous pyroclastic flows.
What is a composite volcano
These two continents match up almost perfectly.
What are Africa and South America?
Thicker but less dense; made mostly out of granite.
What is continental crust?
The San Andreas Fault.
What is an example of a transform boundary?
This is the name of a person who uses their slaves to wash clothes in urine to remove the stains.
What is a fuller?
a volcano that rarely reaches above 1000 feet and has very steep sides.
What is a cinder cone volcano?
This type of boundary happens when a more dense ocean plate and a less dense continental plate meet.
What is a subduction zone?
though the hottest layer of the earth, this layer is made of solid metal.
What is the inner core?
This is the man who helped find the missing piece to Wegener's continental drift theory by showing that the ocean floor is spreading.
Who is Harry Hess?
The dangerous wave of superheated gas and ash that can happen during an eruption of a composite volcano. This wave is the deadliest part of an eruption.
What is a pyroclastic flow?
These are the 4 pieces of evidence that Wegener used to support his theory on continental drift.
What is Fossil evidence, Glacier movements, Continental fit, and rock layers and landforms?
Younger and more dense; made out of basalt.
What is Oceanic crust?
The plastic like layer that the tectonic plates float on.
What is the Asthenosphere?
The man who wrote about the eruption of Mt Vesuvius and whose name is attached to an eruption that happens every 2000 years.
Who is Pliny the younger?
This igneous intrusion that is a small harden magma pool.
What is a Laccolith?
This was the fern that was found on many different continents that help support Wegener's theory of continental drift.
What is the Glossopteris fern?
This is what causes the plates to move.
What are convection currents?
This is the city where most of the people lost their lives in the boat house due to thermal shock.
What is Herculaneum?