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Earth's structure
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Plate Tectonics
Atmosphere
100
The hottest place on Earth
What is the inner core?
100
This type of volcano is most likely to have small pieces of lava fly into the air?
What is a cinder cone?
100
This is a term meaning any type of earthquake wave
What is a seismic wave?
100
This area under the ocean is where magma erupts from underwater volcanoes
What is a midocean ridge?
100
This is the term which includes the study of weather and climate
What is meteorology?
200
The crust and the upper mantle
What is the lithosphere?
200
This volcano sometimes has quiet eruptions and sometimes violent eruptions?
What is a composite volcano?
200
This type of earthquake wave has a large shadow zone and cannot travel through liquids
What is an s-wave?
200
This plate boundary is characterized by one plate subducting under another plate.
What is a convergent boundary?
200
This layer of the atmosphere is the coldest
What is the mesosphere?
300
The study of everything underneath the earth
What is geology?
300
This volcano has a broad base and it has quiet eruptions
What is a shield volcano?
300
This quality of earthquakes is often measured on the moment magnitude or Richter scale
What is earthquake magnitude?
300
This is the term for the type of heat which drives tectonic plates apart and together
What is convection?
300
These winds come from the area near the equator and are extremely mild
What are the doldrums?
400
The middle portion of earth, beneath the aesthenosphere
What is the mesosphere?
400
This "pit" is formed by the sudden collapse of a magma chamber
What is a caldera?
400
This type of earthquake wave does the most damage
What is a surface wave?
400
This is the fossilized fern which helped Alfred Wegener come up with his theory of continental drift
What is glossopteris?
400
This is a phenomenon created by the rotation of the Earth, making winds and waves curve
What is the Coriolis Effect?
500
This is the layer upon which tectonic plates "float"
What is the aesthenosphere?
500
This material which comes from volcanoes looks like twisted rope?
What is pahoehoe?
500
This is the term for an area where no earthquakes have occurred recently but could be expected at any time
What is a seismic gap?
500
This idea could not be proven until the floor of the ocean could be seen and mapped, and was the final proof for Plate Tectonics
What is seafloor spreading?
500
This is the term for the amount of heat reflected by each surface
What is albedo?