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Tectonic Plates
Mountains
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Tsunamis
100
The large landmasses on earth.
What are continents?
100
This mountain forms when molten rock pushes up toward the earth's surface along a fault line but doesn't break through the surface of the earth.
What is a dome mountain?
100
Liquid rock inside the earth.
What is magma?
100
Sudden shifting movements in the earth's surface.
What is an earthquake.
100
A series of huge waves that can cause great devestation.
What is a tsunami.
200
The place where two plates meet.
What are fault lines?
200
This mountain forms when blocks of rock plit along fault lines and slide in opposite directions.
What are block mountains?
200
A volcano that is constantly erupting.
What is an active volcano.
200
It happens when tectonic plates collide, separate, or scrape against one another along fault lines.
What is the cause of an earthquake?
200
The Japanese word meaning 'harbor wave'.
What is the origin of the word tsunami?
300
The supercontinent that formed over 200 million years ago.
What is Pangea?
300
This type of mountain forms when tectonic plates move against each other and push and squeeze up the crust of the earth.
What are fold mountains.
300
A volcano that is inactive for hundreds of years.
What is an extinct volcano.
300
An instrument that measures earthquakes.
What is a seismograph?
300
The alternate rising and falling of the sea, usually twice in each lunar day at a particular place, due to gravity.
What are the tides?
400
The continents moving.
What is continental drift?
400
This type of mountain forms when molten rock from the earh rises to the surface and spurts out of the top to form lava.
What are volcanoes?
400
A volcano that is inactive, but expected to become active again.
What is a dormant volcano.
400
A scientist that studies earthquakes.
What is a seismologist?
400
When water recedes quickly and unexpectedly from the land.
What is a drawback?
500
The place where there is the most tectonic activity.
What is the Ring of Fire?
500
The alps are this type of mountain.
What is one example in Switzerland of fold mountains?
500
A volcano that erupts at regular intervals.
What is an intermittent volcano.
500
A scale from 1-10 used to describe the force or intensity of an earthquake.
What is the Richter Scale?
500
Underwater eruption, underwater earthquake, asteroid, or meteoroid.
What are the four causes of a tsunami?