What is the Richter scale?

Rates the strength of an Earthquake

What is the continental drift?

A theory that explains how our continents moved over time

What is a divergent plate boundary?

When plates spread apart from each other

What are the 3 different types of faults?

Strike slip, normal, and reverse(thrust)

When do you see potential energy in an Earthquake?

Before the plates move and the energy is stored up

What are the Earth's layers?

Crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core

What is a transform plate boundary?

When plates slide against each other

What is a seismograph?

An instrument that records Earthquake movement

What is a convergent plate boundary?

When plates collide into each other

What happens because of a convergent plate boundary?

Earthquakes, volcanoes, and mountains form

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1
What is the Richter scale?
Where most Earthquakes mostly occur
Rates the strength of an Earthquake
Center of an Earthquake
2
What is the continental drift?
A crack in the Earth's crust
A theory that explains how our continents moved over time
Waves from an Earthquake
An instrument used to record earthquakes
3
What is a fault?
The inner core
An instrument that records an Earthquake
A crack in the Earth's crust
The center of an Earthquake
4
What is a divergent plate boundary?
When plates collide into each other
When plates slide against each other
When plates spread apart from each other
5
What are the 3 different types of faults?
Mantle, crust, and outer core
Seismograph, epicenter, and focus
Strike slip, normal, and reverse(thrust)
Convection, conduction, and radiation
6
When do you see potential energy in an Earthquake?
When the plates are moving
Before the plates move and the energy is stored up
There is no potential energy in an Earthquake
7
Why do the tectonic plates move?
The earth is moving
Convection in the mantle
The ring of fire
8
What are the Earth's layers?
Mantle and inner core
Strike slip, normal, and reverse
Convergent, divergent, and transform
Crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core
9
The Earth's crust is broken into pieces called what?
Lava
Egg shells
Tectonic plates
Metamorphic pieces
10
What is the big fault in Utah?
Money Fault
San Andreas Fault
Wasatch Fault
American Fault
11
What is a transform plate boundary?
When plates collide into each other
When plates spread apart from each other
When plates slide against each other
12
What is a seismograph?
The center of the Earthquake
An instrument that records Earthquake movement
A crack in the Earth
Layers of the Earth
13
Most Earthquakes occur around plate boundaries
False
True
14
Our continents were once a big supercontinent called what?
Chimichanga
Pangea
Sedimentary
Earth
15
Plate boundaries occur where 2 plates meet
False
True
16
What is the mantle made of?
Gas
Water
Magma
Pop rocks
17
What is a convergent plate boundary?
When plates slide against each other
When plates spread apart from each other
When plates collide into each other
18
When do you see kinetic energy in an earthquake
Before plates move and energy is stored up
There is no energy in Earthquakes
When the plates are moving
19
What happens because of a convergent plate boundary?
Nothing
Earthquakes, volcanoes, and mountains form
The Earth pulls apart
20
What is potential energy?
Heat
Stored up energy
Energy that is moving
21
What is kinetic energy?
Heat
Energy that moves
Stored up energy

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