Duplicate of Plate Tectonics Review

What is the ash and dust called that is ejected from a volcano?

Which of the following is NOT support for Wegener's theory of continental drift?

What is the solid, plastic layer of the mantle called?

What type of boundary is characterized by underwater volcanoes?

Which of the following is associated with earthquake and volcanic activity?

What feature in North America is a result from the collision of Pangea?

What types of waves cause the greatest damage?

What type of plate boundary is associated the geologic activity on Iceland?

What is the difference between the arrival of the P waves and S waves?

Where do earthquakes most likely occur?

What type of boundary is characterized by the formation of island arcs?

What part of the Earth do tectonic plates include?

What type of plate boundary formed the Himalayas?

What is another name for a composite volcano?

What type of boundary is characterized by one plate moving below another plate?

What is the only volcanic zone not along a plate boundary?

What is a large, circular depression that forms when a magma chamber empties and collapses?

Which of the following are the largest, non-violent volcanoes?

What types of waves travel the fastest?

What is molten rock on the earth's surface called?

What earthquake measurement scale is the most accurate?

What can volcanic eruptions be signaled by?

What type of plate boundary formed the Cascades?

What is the zone called that has a great deal of vocanic and earthquake activity?

Which crust has a higher density?

What can cause an earthquake in the center of a plate?

What is a giant  surge of water that can result from an underwater earthquake?

What type of boundary is characterized by large, non-volcanic mountain ranges?

What type of plate boundary is associated with the formation of deep ocean trenches?

How many locations do scientists need seismograph data to determine the epicenter?

Where do earthquakes originate?

According to Wegener what broke up about 250 million years ago?

What is formed when magma doesn't reach Earth's surface and solidifies inside Earth's crust?

What is the pit of the volcano where magma and pyroclastics is ejected from?

What is the most conclusive proof of the continental drift?

What type of plate boundary is characterized by one plate sliding past another?

What theory is Alfred Wegener responsible for?

Which of the following are the most explosive, violent volcanoes?