earthquakes and volcanoes review

What is an earthquake’s numerical measurement of its size or strength?

Which of the following is not pieces of evidence that the Pangaea existed.

When two plates collide (convergent), what can possibly result?

The Hawaiian Islands formed over a ______, which is a relatively fixed location in the mantle.

Reverse faults at transform boundaries slide past each other.

What is the name of the supercontinent that existed about 300 million years ago?

Seismic waves are caused by earthquake energy released as vibrations.

Earthquakes can occur at all boundaries

At convergent boundaries, volcanoes form when...

What type of stress causes a plate to come pull apart in opposite directions?

 A _____forms when the force on the tectonic plates creates a sudden break in the rock of Earth’s crust or mantle.

Which type of stress causes strike-slip faults to break?

According to the picture, what type of plate boundary would you find a subduction zone?

continental plates are more dense than oceanic plates

Which type of fault occurs at divergent boundaries, where plates move apart?

The majority of earthquakes occur at which type of boundary?

Geologists use seismographs to record seismic waves and determine the location and magnitude of earthquakes.

What is the force that acts on rock to change its shape or volume?

Which idea did Alfred Wegener propose?

A volcano forms when molten material from the _____ reaches Earth’s surface and erupts as _______.