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Pangea
Energy Flow
Types of Plates
Natural Disasters
100
This is where the point where the earthquake is felt at its strongest.
Epicenter
100
This was the name of the large land mass 250 million years ago.
Pangea
100
Earth's energy comes from 2 places. Name them.
Sun and core
100
The 15 plates on Earth are a part of the ( )
Lithosphere
100
What is the scale used to measure earthquakes and what is the tool used?
Richter scale and Seismometer
200
What is the Ring of Fire?
An area in the Pacific that has 75% of the Earth's volcanoes
200
Was Pangea the first and only large land mass? Yes or no?
No
200
Hot air ( ). Cold air ( )
Rises. Sinks.
200
What type of land formation can be created by convergent plates?
Mountains
200
What is the difference between magma and lava
Magma is below the surface and lava is above
300
The theory states that all of the continents were once connected in one large land mass.
Continental Drift
300
This theory states that Earth's surface is broken into large, rigid pieces that move independently from each other.
Theory of plate tectonics
300
This word refers to the warming of a substance caused by the circulation of different air temperatures
Convection
300
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is an example of this boundary.
Divergent
300
Earthquakes usually happen at this boundary
Transform
400
What is subduction?
When one plate moves under another
400
Give 1 reason of evidence that Pangea existed.
Answer must include, the same fossil found on different lands, mountain ranges made of the same rock, or plants growing in Antarctica
400
Materials in Earth's mantle move in a circular direction? True or false?
True
400
New oceanic crust forms and old crust moves away from the mid-ocean ridge during ( )
Seafloor Spreading
400
What needs to happen in order for a tsunami to occur?
An earthquake
500
The creation of a mountain range is similar to this ( )
A head on car crash
500
This person came up with the Theory of Plate Tectonics
Alfred Wegener
500
What causes the plates to move?
Heat in the mantle causes plates to slide
500
The San Andres Fault is a type of boundary
Transform
500
What are the three types of volcanoes?
Active, extinct, dormant