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The Earth's Surface
General Plate Tectonics
Mixed
Plate Tectonic Vocabulary
Plate Tectonic Pot Luck
100
Vibrations caused by earthquakes.
What are waves?
100
The names of the two types of crusts.
What is continental and oceanic?
100
Hot liquid rock under the earth.
What is magma?
100
A deep oceanic valley.
What is a trench?
100
When stress is released in quick bursts and the plates shift, we feel shaking and trembling.
What is an earthquake?
200
The Earth's outermost and thinnest layer.
What is the Earth's Crust?
200
A theory is this.
What is an unproven idea based on available evidence. ?
200
Hot liquid rock on the surface of the earth.
What is lava?
200
Melted earth's crust.
What is magma?
200
The origional land mass or supercontinent named by Alfred Wegener.
What is Pangaea?
300
The number of regions the mantle is divided into.
What is 2?
300
Moving plates cause these.
What is geological features?
300
Is the solid rock of the earth's crust.
What is bedrock?
300
A crack or fracture in the earth's crust.
What is a fault?
300
The name of the fault line in California.
What is San Andreas Fault?
400
The only liquid layer of the earth.
What is the outer core?
400
A mountain range under the ocean which is split down the middle.
What is mid-ocean ridge?
400
A large piece of the crust that holds together and is moved over the mantle.
What is a plate?
400
A huge ocean wave caused by a sudden shift in the ocean's floor.
What is a tsunami?
400
An area of the world that has many volcanoes and earthquakes.
What is The Pacific Belt or Mediterrianean Belt?
500
The inner core is a sphere made mostly of these two materials.
What is iron and nickel?
500
Happens when plates push against each other(of equal strength).
What are mountains?
500
The boundary of the North American Plate and the Pacific Plate forms in this state.
What is California?
500
A deep valley made by plates coming together.
What is a trench?
500
The band of active volcanoes that encircle the Pacific Ocean.
What is "The Ring of Fire?"