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Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100
The person who suggested that all the continents were all connected as one large landmass
What is Alfred Wegener
100
The instrument that measures seismic waves
What is a seismograph
100
An opening in Earth that erupts gases, ash, and lava
What is a volcano
100
The large landmass that means "all land"
What is Pangaea
100
Areas of volcanic activity that created the Hawaiian Islands
What is Hot Spots
200
Give at least 2 pieces of evidence of the continental drift happen.
What is continental puzzle, fossil, geological features, climate
200
Measures how much energy an earthquake releases.
What is Richter Scale
200
An area where Earth's plates are moving apart
What is Divergent Plate Boundary
200
Forms when two continental plates collide together.
What is Mountains
200
The _________ is the measure of the energy that is released during an earthquake
What is the magnitude
300
The outer shell of the Earth that is made of crust and mantle, rigid layers, and broken into plates.
What is Lithosphere
300
These are the slowest but are the most destructive earthquake waves
What is Surface Waves or L waves
300
The largest intrusive igneous rock bodies
What is batholith
300
Where oceanic and continental plates collide and the oceanic plate plunges beneath the less dense continental plate
What is subdution zone
300
The measure of a material's resistance to flow.
What is viscosity
400
The plastic like layer below the lithosphere
What is asthenosphere
400
The seismic wave that are the first to arrive, fastest waves, Congressional waves, can travel through solids, liquids, and gases.
What is Primary Waves
400
Name 3 types of Volcanoes.
What is Shield, Composite, Cinder Cone
400
When volcanic ash and debris rush down the side of the volcano
What is pyroclastic flow
400
The point on the Earth's surface directly above where an earthquake started.
What is Epicenter
500
When continental plates pull apart, they can form this.
What is a Rift Valley or Seafloor Spreading
500
When the earthquake causes wet soil to act more like a liquid
What is liquefaction
500
What 3 factors determine the violence of an eruption?
What is composition of magma, temperature, dissolved gases.
500
Name the boundary or fault when two plates slide past one another causing earthquakes.
What is Transform Boundary
500
Giant tidal waves triggered by earthquakes.
What is Tsunamis