Who is the German who came up with the idea of continental drift?
100
Solid iron and nickel
What is the inner core?
100
Moving away from each other.
What is Divergent.
Bonus: 100 points - Name one geologic feature formed along divergent boundaries.
100
Molten material at the earth's surface.
What is lava?
100
The scale used to measure earthquakes based on the amount of damage and people's opinions.
What is the Mercalli Scale?
Bonus: 100 pts. What does the Richter Scale measure?
200
Two evidences to support continental drift theory.
What is fossils, or puzzle pieces, or mountain formations, or rock formations, or glacial scarring.
200
Rigid, made mostly of bedrock, where we locate natural resources such as fossil fuels and water.
What is the upper mantle?
200
When one plate slips beneath another at a convergent boundary.
What is subduction?
200
Molten rock beneath earth's surface.
What is magma?
200
These waves arrive first at the surface.
What are Primary Waves or P-Waves?
300
Name of the supercontinent.
What is Pangaea?
300
Thin, dense crust
What is oceanic crust?
300
Pushing toward each other - colliding
What is a convergent boundary?
Bonus: 100 pts. Name a geologic feature that occurs at a convergent boundary where oceanic crust is colliding with continental crust.
300
Lava, heat, gases escape from the mantle through a ...
What is a vent?
300
These waves do the most damage because the move the earth up and down, back and forth, and round.
What are surface waves?
400
The tectonic plates (lithosphere) layers
What are continental/oceanic crust and upper mantle?
400
The only truly liquid layer.
What is the outer core?
400
Mountains are formed.
What is continental - continental convergent boundary?
Bonus: 100 pts. Give one example of where this occurs on earth.
400
Small, gently-sloped, non-violent volcanoes.
What are shield volcanoes.
400
A wave generated by the sudden movement of earth material beneath the ocean.
What is a tsunami?
500
The activity at this type of boundary provides proof of the theory the plates are "floating" on the mantle.
What is divergent boundaries - mid-ocean ridges.
500
The plastic-like molten layer the plates "float" on.
What is the asthenosphere?
500
Earthquakes occur at these type of boundaries.
What is divergent, convergent and transform boundaries.
500
Mt. St. Helens.
What is a composite volcano?
500
Point located above the focus of an earthquake determined by scientists using 3 seismograms on the earth.