Continental Drift
The name of the scientist that developed the hypothesis of continental Drift.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
An area where lava frequently erupts at the surface, independent of plate boundary processes.
What is a Hot Spot?
These are types of waves that are produced by earthquakes.
What is Seismic Waves?
A break in the rock of Earth's crust or mantle.
What is a Fault?
The type of plates that move apart from each other.
What is Divergent?
The name of the "Supercontinent".
What is Pangaea?
This type of volcano is made of alternating layer of lava flow and ash falls.
What is a composite volcano?
A wave or series of waves produced by an earthquake or landside that can involve the entire water column.
What is a tsunami?
The shaking and trembling that results from plate movement.
What is an Earthquake?
The type of plates that slip past each other
What is Transform?
The process in which molten rock flows up through a crack in Earth's crust and hardens into solid strips on both sides of the crack.
What is Sea-floor Spreading?
When a volcano poses little threat but could erupt in the future.
What is Dormant?
The scale that is used to measure the strength of Earthquakes.
What is the Richter scale OR What is the Moment magnitude scale?
A structure that forms in Earth's crust when molten material, or magma, reaches Earth's surface.
What is a Volcano?
The type of boundary where a rift valley is found.
What is Divergent?
The undersea that represents one of the deepest parts of the ocean.
What is an Ocean Trench?
The place where magma collects before an eruption.
What is the Magma Chamber?
This type of seismic wave is the first to arrive at a location on Earth's surface.
What is P or Primary waves?
The measurement of an earthquake's strength based on Seismic waves and movement along faults.
What is magnitude?
This process occurs when one or both plates are oceanic.
What is Subduction?
Name 2 types of evidence to support the theory of continental Drift.
What are:
fossils
landforms
coal deposits
Climate
The type of volcano that have slow and steady eruptions in which lava flows out and builds up over a large area.
What is a shield volcano?
The device used to measure seismic waves.
What is a Seismograph?
A fold in rock that bends upward into an arch.
What is an Anticline?
This is the process in the mantle that causes tectonic plates to move.
What is Convection Currents?