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100
Name the three types of plate boundaries and explain what direction they go.
What is Convergent (Towards each other), Divergent (Away from each other), and Transform (Up and Down)
100
What is it called when an earthquake starts above ground.
What is epicenter.
100
Name the three types of volcanoes.
What is shield, cinder cone, and composite
100
what volcano destroyed Pompeii?
What is Mount Vesuvius
100
Where was the deadliest earthquake found.
What is Shansi, China. (830,000 deaths)
200
Name the results of each boundary.
What is convergent makes volcanoes, tsunamis, and mountains, divergent makes new bodies of water, rift valley, and volcanoes, and transform causes earthquakes.
200
What is it called when a earthquake starts below ground.
What is focus
200
Name the differences between the three types of volcanoes.
What is shield is quiet, wide gently sloping mountain, and has lava, cinder cone is explosive, steep cone shaped mountain, and has ash, cinders, and bombs, composite is quiet and explosive, cone shaped, and has alternating layers of lava and ash.
200
What tectonic plate do we live on now?
What is North American plate
200
What city has the most deaths because of volcanoes.
What is Tambora, Indonesia
300
Name the causes of each boundary.
What is convergent makes volcanoes, tsunamis, and mountains, divergent makes new bodies of water, rift valley, and volcanoes, transform makes earthquakes and san andres vault.
300
What is the largest types of waves.
What is Surface (L-Waves).
300
How does the ring of fire unite plates, earthquakes, and volcanoes.
What is subduction causes earthquakes and volcanoes, while convergent boundaries surround the ring of fire causing a lot of destruction and firey goodness.
300
How many miles does San Andrea's fault extend? (have to be within 20 miles)
What is 800 miles
300
Where was the world's deadliest volcanic eruption?
What is Mount Vesuvius in Italy (buried the entire city of Pompeii)
400
Plates float on top of the what?
What is the asthenosphere
400
How is energy of an earthquake stored.
When to plates get jammed and they are unable to release the energy.
400
This is when magma heats water underground and it is trapped.
What is a geyser
400
What is the world's largest volcano?
What is Mauna Loa (56,000 feet high)
400
In 1957 the amazing state of North Dakota had a tornado caller Gebert how many peopl died? -Within 10
What is 10
500
This is the mechanism (what causes) the plates to move
What is convection cycles in the mantle
500
How is energy released from an earthquake
When one plate overpowers another.
500
These two other planets have extinct volcanoes similar to earth.
What is Venus and Mars
500
What is the world's largest tectonic plate?
What is Pacific Plate (130 million kilometers squared)
500
Worth-70 points What country had the most deaths of a tornado?
What is Bangladesh