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Tectonic Plates
Tectonic Plate Boundaries
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Miscellaneous
100
The name of the supercontinent.
What is Pangaea?
100
The type of boundary of tectonic plates moving together.
What is a convergent boundary?
100
This trembling movement occurs following an earthquake.
What is an aftershock?
100
The long narrow area that leads from the magma chamber to the top of the volcano is called this.
What is the central pipe?
100
This is where an earthquake begins.
What is the epicenter?
200
The person who developed the Theory of Continental Drift
Who is Alfred Wegener?
200
The movement of tectonic plate moving away from each other.
What is divergent plates?
200
This measures the magnitude of an earthquake.
What is the Richter scale?
200
Mauna Loa is this type of volcano
What is a shield volcano?
200
This destructive wall of water is set off by an earthquake occurring under the ocean.
What is a tsunami?
300
The crust and the rigid upper mantle which make up the tectonic plate.
What is the lithosphere?
300
The movement of tectonic plates slipping and sliding past each other.
What is a transform fault boundary?
300
In measuring an earthquake, this is how much more force an earthquake has if it measures a 2 on the scale or a 1 on the scale.
What is 30 times more force?
300
This volcano spews forth little sticky pea-sized bits of hardened lava.
What is a cinder cone volcano?
300
This is the most destructive type of wave in an earthquake.
What is an L wave?
400
Layer of Earth below the lithosphere whose consistency is like putty.
What is the asthenosphere?
400
Heat energy that is transferred through a fluid.
What is convection?
400
The scale that measures the magnitude of earthquakes goes up to this number.
What is 10?
400
This volcano has never erupted in recorded history.
What is an extinct volcano?
400
This type of mountain forms when two tectonic plates "crash" into each other.
What is folded mountains?
500
A continuous chain of mountains on the ocean floor.
What is the mid-ocean ridge?
500
The earth's magnetic field switches around.
What is magnetic reversal?
500
The name of a scientist who studies earthquakes.
What is a seismologist?
500
This type of volcano erupts constantly.
What is an active volcano?
500
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?