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Plates
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Inside Earth
Space
100
Name of the "Supercontinent"
What is Pangeae
100
Earthquake risk is greatest along....
What is Plate Boundaries
100
The main hazard from quiet volcanic eruptions.
What are lava flows
100
Dense ball of solid metal, mostly iron and nickle
What is Earth's Inner Core
100
The American effort to land astronauts on the moon.
What is the Apollo Program
200
Process that causes the molten material to rise up and make "new land" in the sea.
What is Sea Floor Spreading
200
A subduction zones are often the locations of MAJOR earthquakes? T or F
What is True
200
Tall, cone-shaped mountains made of layers of lava alternating with layers of ash.
What are Composite Volcanoes
200
Any trace of an ancient organism that has been preserved in rock.
What is a fossil
200
Space exploration beyond the moon has been done with a human crew. T or F
What is False
300
Theory that says pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in constant motion.
What is Plate Tectonics
300
When plates get locked together and then suddenly slip past each other, an earthquake has occured along a ____________
What is Transform Boundary
300
An example of valcanoes that form along hot spots.
What are the Hawaiian Islands.
300
A layer of hot rock that bends like plastic.
What is Earth's Mantle
300
Ship that carried the first astronauts to walk on the moon.
What is the Apollo 11
400
A place where 2 plates slip past each other, moving in opposite directions.
What is a Transform Boundary
400
Point beneath the Earth's surface where rock breaks under stress, triggering an earthquake
What is the Focus
400
Formed by ash, cinders and bombs, that build up in a steep pile around a volcano's vent.
What is a Cinder Cone Volcano
400
Process inthe Earth's mantle that causes the plates to move.
What are convection currents
400
The shuttle that exploded on it's way into space, with a school teacher on board, in 1986.
What is the Challenger
500
Scientist who came up with the idea of Continental Drift and the supercontinent "Pangeae".
Who is Alfred Wegener
500
The name of the fault line in NorthEast Arkansas
What is the New Madrid Fault Line
500
Small earthquakes in the area of a volcano.
What are warning signs of an eruption.
500
Mountain formed when land between two normal faults moves upward
What is a Fault Block Mountain
500
The name of BOTH astronauts that walked on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission.
Who are Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong