Plate tectonics basic
Volcanoes and eruptions
Earthquakes and seismic waves
Geological hazards and impacts
boundary detectives
100

What force makes plates move?

What is Mantle convection?
100

What is the most destructive volcano type?

What is a composite volcano?

100

This disaster can follow from an earthquake

What is Tsunami?

100

What Geologic hazard includes an increase in water which eventually submerges settlements?

What is a flood?

100

What Boundary has two plates that move towards each other?

What is Convergent Boundary?

200

What plates make the mid-Atlantic ridge?

What are the North american and European plates?

200

What is magma?

What is molten rock that is underground?

200

Earthquakes are recorded by this

What is seismographs?

200

Can geological Hazards, such as landslides, occur underwater?

What is yes?

200

Normal faults are created by which plate boundary?

What is a convergent boundary?

300

What is the ring of fire?

What is the major area basin in the pacific ocean where natural disasters happen due to multiple subduction zones?

300

In convection, what does the hot/warmer material do?

What is rises?

300

Can S waves can travel through solids?

What is no?

300

What are short-lived, rapid movements of glaciers called?

What is a Glacial Surge?

300

In a ocean-continental convergent boundary, what plate is subducted?

What is the continental tectonic plate?

400

What was the supercontinent BEFORE Pangea?

What is Rodinia?

400

What is the deadliest byproduct of volcanic eruptions?

What is lahar?

400

What can follow earthquakes?

What are Aftershocks?

400

What can help prevent landslides?

What are trees?

400

The San Andreas fault in California, U.S, is what type of fault? And, what boundary caused it?

What is a strike-slip fault and a transform boundary?

500

How much do plates move in year?

What is 2-10 centimeters per year?

500

What volcanic eruptions wiped out Pompeii, Herculaneum, Oplontis, Stabiae, and other settlements next to it?

What is mount vesuvius?

500

What fault creates the most destructive earthquake

What is strike slip?

500

What tsunami killed the most people?

What is the 2004 Indian ocean tsunami?

500

What fault is created from a divergent boundary?

What is a reverse fault?