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Earth's Layers
Continental Drift
Faults
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
100
What are the two parts of the outermost layer of the Earth?
What is the Oceanic and Continental Crust.
100
What is the name of the "super continent"
What is Pangea.
100
What type of fault does a transform boundary form?
What is a strike-slip fault.
100
What scale is used to measure the magnitude of earthquakes?
What is the Richter Scale.
100
What are the three types of volcanoes?
What is Cinder Cone, Shield, and Composite Volcano.
200
What is the Inner Core Made of?
What is Solid Iron and Nickel.
200
What is the name of the scientist who developed the Theory of Continental Drift.
Who is Alfred Wegener.
200
What type of fault does a convergent boundary form?
What is a reverse fault.
200
What are the two types of body waves?
What is S and P waves.
200
Where are the two places that volcanoes are found?
What is hot spots and plate boundaries.
300
What is the outer core made of?
What is liquid iron and nickel.
300
What are the three things that support the theory of continental drift?
What is fossils, land features, and climate change.
300
What type of fault does a divergent boundary make?
What is a normal fault.
300
What type of wave causes the most damage and is the slowest wave.
What is surface waves.
300
What type of volcano is small with steep sides, has small eruptions, and is made of only pyroclastic material?
What is Cinder Cone Volcano.
400
What are the 3 layers of the mantle?
What is lithosphere, asthenosphere, and lower mantle.
400
How do fossils support the theory of continental drift.
What is fossils of the same species are found across continents.
400
What is the focus of an earthquake?
What is the exact location underground where the earthquake begins.
400
What type of wave arrives first and moved in a straight line to compress rock.
What is a P- Wave.
400
What volcano is found mostly on oceanic crust or in oceans, is wider than it is tall, has quiet but deadly eruptions, and is made of ONLY lava.
What is a shield volcano.
500
How does the mantle move?
What is convection currents.
500
How do land features support the theory of continental drift?
What is the continents fit together like puzzle pieces.
500
What instrument is used to measure earthquakes?
What is a seismograph.
500
What type of wave cannot move through liquid.
What is an S- Wave?
500
What are composite volcanoes made of?
What is layers of ash and lava.