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Boundaries
Continental Drift
The Earth
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
100
Where two tectonic plates move toward each other
What is a convergent boundary?
100
The person who developed the theory of continental drift.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
100
The section of the earth that is 1800 miles thick.
What is the Mantle?
100
Measures the magnitude of an Earthquake.
What is the Richter Scale?
100
A place where magma and other debris come out of the earth.
What is a volcano?
200
Where plate boundaries move away from each other
What is a divergent boundary?
200
The person who discovered the principle of sea floor spreading.
Who is Harry Hess?
200
The outer layer of the earth.
What is the crust?
200
The place in the earth where the fault line brakes.
What is the focus?
200
The type of volcano composed of slow lava flows.
What is a shield volcano?
300
Where plates grind as they slide past each other.
What is a Transform boundary?
300
The mechanism that pushes the tectonic plates around.
What is mantle convection
300
The solid center of the earth.
What is the inner core?
300
The place on the surface of the earth directly over the focus.
What is epicenter?
300
The type of volcano that is explosive.
What is a cinder cone volcano?
400
These formed when two continental plates converge.
What are the Himalayan Mountains or the Andes Mountains
400
The theory that formed from Continental Drift.
What is the theory of Plate Tectonics?
400
The liquid center of the earth that is composed of iron and nickel.
What is outer core?
400
The area around the Pacific Ocean where volcanoes and earthquakes occur.
What is the Ring of Fire?
400
The type of volcano that has altering explosive and then calm lava flows.
What is a composite volcano?
500
When an ocean crust slides underneath the continental crust.
What is a subduction zone?
500
Fit of the continents, fossils, climate, and mountains?
What is evidence for Continental Drift?
500
The plastic like layer that is in between the mantle and the crust.
What the asnthenosphere?
500
The fault that runs from Brigham City to Nephi.
What is the Wasatch Fault?
500
A place in the middle of a tectonic plate that produces volcanoes like Hawaii and Yellowstone.
What is a Hotspot?