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A wall of water that forms from a earthquake out in the ocean is known as a what?
What is a Tsunami
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What is the most famous volcano in north america
What is Mt. St. Helens
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What was the scientific name for when all the continents we together as one?
What is Pangea
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What is the instrument called that measures the size of an earthquake?
What is Seismograph
100

What are the 3 main layers that make up the interior of the earth?

What is The crust, mantle and core

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What scale do we use to measure how large an earthquake is? If a 1 on the scale is like 10 bombs, what is a 3 on the scale?
What is Richter Scale
200
What is the most famous volcano in the world
What is Mt. Vesuvius
200

Describe how continents "drift"

Teacher will award points based on answers about seafloor spreading. 

200
An area where 2 large sets of rocks move beside each other
What is a fault
200

What phase is the moon in right now?

What is ___________

300

The _________________ is the surface location directly above the earthquake.

What is the epicenter

300
What is the city called that Mt. Vesuvius buried in Italy leaving casts of dead bodies?
What is Pompeii
300
Give 2 signs of evidence of continental drift?
What is Rocks and Fossils
300
What is the area called where there are lots of volcanoes in a huge circle?
What is Ring of fire
300

What is the zone called where one plate is diving under another plate?

What is Subduction zone

400

What causes earthquakes? Write a full sentence answer. 

Earthquakes are caused by the movements or shifts of tectonic plates. 

400
Volcano's that are not active are said to be what?
What is dormant
400
What are the two types of crust? which is heavier and thicker?
What is Oceanic and Continental crust. Continental crust
400

What are faults? 

Faults are similar to boundaries, there are 3 types of faults, they are basically cracks in tectonic plates. 

400

This is the month the teacher born in?

What is December. 

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There are many __________________ after a major earthquake. Kobe earthquake in japan had 600 of them.
What is Aftershocks
500

Explain how volcanoes are formed, use a full sentence. 

They are formed under subduction plates


The teacher will decide accuracy of answers. 

500
What do we call plates that are pushing into and against each other?
What is Converging plates
500
What do we call plates that are moving away from each other?
What is Diverging plates
500

What type of radar to we use to scan the bottom of the ocean floor for plate activity?

What is Sonar