Tectonic Plates
The name of the most recent supercontinent.
What is Pangaea?
The type of boundary of tectonic plates moving together.
What is a convergent boundary?
Scientists have studied these to determine the composition of the inside of our earth.
What are interior earthquakes?
This is where an earthquake begins.
What is the epicenter?
The person who developed the Theory of Continental Drift
Who is Alfred Wegener?
The movement of tectonic plate moving away from each other.
What is divergent plates?
This trembling movement occurs following an earthquake.
What is an aftershock?
They are created over a long period of time by slow moving magma.
What is a shield volcano?
This destructive wall of water is set off by an earthquake occurring under the ocean.
What is a tsunami?
The crust and the rigid upper mantle which make up the tectonic plate.
What is the lithosphere?
The movement of tectonic plates slipping and sliding past each other.
What is a transform fault boundary?
The tectonic boundary responsible for the earthquakes in California.
What is the San Andreas Fault?
The more dangerous volcano type that can erupt at high velocities.
What is a cone volcano?
The deepest places in the ocean.
What is a trench?
Layer of Earth below the lithosphere whose consistency is plastic like putty.
What is the asthenosphere?
Cyclical heat energy that is transferred through a fluid
What is convection?
The plate boundary responsible for deep earthquakes.
What are Subduction Zones?
The tectonic boundary that forms island arcs.
What is an oceanic-oceanic subduction zone? or
What is an oceanic-oceanic convergent boundary?
The Pacific Plate is under the Pacific Ocean. It's boundaries are made up of fiery volcanoes and because of this, it has a special name.
What is the Ring of Fire?
A continuous chain of mountains on the ocean floor.
What is the mid-ocean ridge?
An oceanic lithosphere being recycled into the Earth's mantle at convergent boundaries.
What is a subduction zone?
The name of the tool scientists who studies earthquakes use to measure its size.
What is a seismograph?
The active volcano in Hawaii
What is Kilauea?
The city in Italy famous for their marble.
What is Carrera?