Year 9 Earth and Space science

What forms at transform boundaries?

Which layer of Earth is composed mostly of iron and nickel?

Which seismic waves are the fastest and arrive first?

Which layer is rigid rock

What feature forms at a divergent boundary in the ocean?

Where do most earthquakes and volcanoes occur?

What part of the volcano is this

What is the melted hot rock called once it reaches Earth’s surface?

What is the outermost layer of Earth called?

What part of the volcano is this

Who proposed the theory of continental drift?

In which layer do the convection currents occur?

In which layer of Earth do convection currents occur?

What is reverse polarity

What instrument is used to measure the magnitude of an earthquake?

What is the name for the area in the Pacific Ocean with many earthquakes and volcanoes?

What is the name of the location on Earth’s surface directly above the earthquake focus?

Which type of boundary is associated with the creation of new oceanic crust?

Which type of plate boundary is responsible for forming mountains?

At which type of plate boundary do plates move apart?

Which process recycles oceanic crust back into the mantle?

What is the primary source of energy that drives plate tectonics?

The theory that continents move over geological time is called what?

What type of wave is a P-wave

Which waves can only travel through solids?