Lithosphere

Which of the following results when divergence occurs between two oceanic plates?

Which of the following was NOT used in support of the continental drift hypothesis?

Which of the following affects the amount of destruction caused by earthquake vibrations?

In the plate tectonic theory, a plate can be made up of

What is the density of Oceanic Crust?

Area where plates move towards each other

What are the types of volcanoes?

How do we determine the direction of an island arc?

Fewest number of seismic stations needed to determine the location of an epicenter?

What kind of plate boundary occurs where two plates slide past each other?

What is the increase in an earthquake measuring 5 on the Moment Magnitude scale compared to one measuring 4?

A succession of ocean waves set in motion by a submarine earthquake is called a(n)

What makes up the Asthenosphere?

What happens when two oceanic plates collide?

Marine fossils were found on top of a mountain. How?

At a transform fault boundary

When an earthquake occurs, energy goes in all directions from its source: the

How does the age of seafloor change as you get closer to land?

Where are the convection currents that drive continental drift?

Area where earthquake waves cannot be recorded.

The Hawaiian Islands were formed when the Pacific Plate moved over

What makes up the Lithosphere?

Which seismic waves more like a rope?

Area where volcanic activity occurs away from plate boundaries.

If a continental and ocean plate collide, which goes underneath?

Which seismic waves move like a “Slinky”?

What is the best known fault in the United States?

Based on circles drawn to find epicenters, how do we know which is closest?

Earth’s inner core is solid because of

Earthquakes are usually associated with

Earth’s thin, rocky outer layer is its

What instrument records earthquake waves?

A fault in which the hanging wall moves down is a

The supercontinent in the continental drift hypothesis was called

What is the process called where soft sediments turn to liquid during an earthquake?

Area where plates move away from each other

What is a fault?

What is the density of Continental Crust?

Most of the information about Earth’s interior was obtained by studying

Magnetic reversals

The idea that the oldest material will be on the bottom

Where is the deepest place on Earth?

Wegener’s continental drift hypothesis stated that all the continents once joined together

The distance between a seismic station and the earthquake epicenter is determined from the

An earthquake’s epicenter is

During an earthquake, the ground can

A tsunami can occur when there is vertical movement at a fault under

Typical rates of seafloor spreading are approximately

Faults that have plates slide by one another are called

Layers of rock bent by forces

What is volcanic material inside the Earth?

Through which Earth layer are S waves NOT transmitted?

Which seismic waves travel more quickly?

One kind of evidence that supports Wegener’s hypothesis is that

Earth’s core is made of an alloy of

What is this picture showing?

What happens when two contiential plates collide?

What do we call the changing of the surface?

Which one of the following statements is true about P waves?

The scale is used for measuring earthquakes