Earths Structure
When tectonic plates move apart
What is Divergent boundaries?
What are P waves, S waves, and Surface waves?
What are seismic waves?
Where lava and gas escape are called...
What are Vents?
Cordillera
Mountain range
What are four of the tectonic plate boundaries?
What is Convergent, Subduction, Divergent, and Transform Boundaries
A machine that measures and records the details of the earthquakes force and duration
What is Seismograph?
What are the four types of volcanoes?
What are Strata Volcano, Shield, Cinder, and Super Volcanos?
The bottom of the fold in the mountains
What is Sycline
The crust is divided into two types what are they?
What is Oceanic and Continetal crust?
Earthquakes are measured using what?
What is Richter scale?
a fast moving avalanche of hot gas, rock, and ash
What is Pyroclastic Flow?
The upward or top part of the folded rock
What is Anticline?
List the Earth's layers in order from out to in
What is
1. Crust
2. Lithosphere
3. Asthenosphere
4. Mantle
5. Outer core
6. Inner core
When you get oil out of the ground it changes the earth around it and it causes earthquakes, this is called what?
What is Fracking?
What are volcanoes eruptions measured in?
What is VEI scale?
Name Five mountain ranges
What are The Rockies, The Alps, The Himalayas, The Andes, The Great Dividing Range, ect.
Who was the man who theorized about Pangaea?
Who was Alfred Wegener?
the place above the focus.
What is Epicenter?