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Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Tectonic Plates
Layers of the Earth
Continental Drift
100

Where are most volcanoes located?

Along the Ring of Fire

100

The process of locating the epicenter of an Earthquake is called______

Triangulation

100
When plates collide

Convergent

100

Where the Earth's Magma resides

Mantle

100

A scientific theory from the early 20th century that supports the idea that continents have moved slowly over a long period of time.

Continental drift

200
This is the molten rock that is beneath Earth's surface.
What is magma?
200
This scale measures the magnitude of an earthquake.
What is the Richter Scale?
200

When plates separate

Divergent

200

Where the bedrock resides

Crust

200

What is the name of the supercontinent suggested to exist by Alfred Wegner?

Pangea

300
Once magma makes it the surface of the Earth is becomes this.
What is lava?
300
This is the name of the place where an earthquake happens underneath the Earth's surface.
What is the focus?
300

When plates slide past

Transform

300

Made up of solid metals

Inner Core

300
This thick ice moves across the land and scrapes, polishes, and carries rock as it goes.
What is a glacier?
400
This mountain buried the city of Pompeii in 79 A.D.
What is Mt. Vesuvius?
400
Some earthquakes happen on the ocean floor and cause this kind of wave.
What is a tsunami?
400
What type of plate boundaries creates new rocks?


Bonus: What type of plate boundaries causes Earthquakes primarily?

Divergent (Mid-Atlantic Ridge)

Convergent

400

Only layer that S Waves can't travel through

Outer Core

400

List the evidence(s) used to support Continental Drift

Rock Layers

Fossils

Glaciers

Mountains

500
What type of boundaries create the most Volcanoes?

Convergent and Divergent

500
In 1906 this American city was nearly destroyed by an earthquake.
What is San Francisco?
500
The rising and sinking of magma inside the mantle

Convection Current

500

Where does old rock go once it starts to sink back into the Earth?

Bonus: What is this process called?

Back into the Mantle.

Subduction Zone

500

How can scientists determine how old a mountain is? 

Bonus points: How old do scientists think the Earth is?

Dating the rock (minerals and/or layers)

4.5 billion years old