One of the largest and one of the smallest plates.
What is the Pacific, Eurasian, NAmerica and Juan de Fuca, Caribbean, Cocos?
100
A scale used to describe earthquakes via their seismic waves.
What is the Richter scale?
100
Mt. Fuji, Mt. Pinatubo, and Mt. St. Helen's.
What are composite volcanoes?
100
The both extremely lethal and contagious disease originating from West Africa has altered the way that passengers board and disembark airplanes in certain airports.
What is Ebola (the Ebola virus)?
200
Viewed via volcanoes.
What is the mantle?
200
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is caused by tension forces at this type of boundary.
What is a divergent boundary?
200
This seismic wave carries shearing forces.
What is a secondary or S-wave?
200
Mt. Kilauea and Mauna Loa.
What are shield volcanoes?
200
The father of Plate Tectonics.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
300
Inferred to be composed of liquid via seismic data.
What is the outer core?
300
The process that causes oceanic trenches to form.
What is subduction?
300
This location of an earthquake is found on the Earth's crust, directly above the source of the seismic energy being released from a fault.
What is the epicenter?
300
This type of volcano typically has the smallest vent.
What is a cinder cone volcano?
300
3.1415926
What is pi?
400
Includes two types --one that is thinner and denser than the other.
What is the crust?
400
The Himalayan Mountain Range is occurring as a result of this specific type of convergent boundary between the Eurasian Plate and the Indian Plate.
What is continental crust meeting continental crust?
400
These seismic waves are the most destructive.
What are surface waves?
400
The type of rock found on the slopes of a cinder cone volcano.
What is fine-grained igneous rock?
400
While elephants garner the title of largest (size and weight) land mammal, rank the following in order from largest to smallest: giraffe, indian rhinoceros, and hippopotamus.
What is indian rhinoceros, hippopatamus, and, lastly, giraffe?
500
The key feature of the aesthenosphere relative to plate tectonics.
What are convection currents?
500
Wegener used these two pieces of evidence to support his much maligned (but evidently accurate) idea of continental drift.
What are (two of the following): the continents seeming to fit together like a puzzle; the discovery of similar rock formations along these puzzle pieces; and unearthing of both land animal and plant fossils in these areas where continents connected?
500
This 1906 earthquake that occurred in this US city claimed 3,000 lives and devastated 80% of the city.
What is San Francisco?
500
An uplifted caldera has created a dome of magma found at this widely visited national park.
What is Yellowstone?
500
This moon of Jupiter may be the next place astronauts visit.