Earth - Unit 7 - Plate Tectonics & Earthquakes Review

Which type of seismic wave is represented in this image?

Using the image, identify the type of Plate Boundary

What is the name for the record recorded at a station that displays earthquake wave signals?

Which type of wave moves the slowest and is the most destructive?

Which of the following earthquake scales is based on intensity (damage)?

What type of fault is represented in this image?

Using the image, identify the type of Plate Boundary

Name Hess' hypothesis: new ocean crust forms at mid-ocean ridges, & is destroyed at trenches

What is the name for a large ocean wave that transfers seismic energy?

Geology's "Grand Unifying Theory," which uses Hess' hypothesis as a mechanism for Wegener's

Using the image, identify the type of Plate Boundary

Which type of seismic wave is represented in this image?

What type of deformation results in permanent rupture of a material?

What type of deformation allows materials to return to their original form?

In the map of oceanic crustal age around midocean ridges, which color represents younger crust?

Using the image, identify the type of Plate Boundary

Which was NOT a piece of evidence proposed by Wegener in his Continental Drift hypothesis?

What areas in the USA have the highest earthquake hazard?

In the image of an Earthquake event along Fault C, what is the name for location B?

The Richter scale measures earthquake magnitude. What is magnitude?

In the image of an Earthquake event along Fault C, what is the name for location A?

What type of fault is represented in this image?

What type of fault is represented in this image?

Using the image, identify the type of Plate Boundary

Which type of seismic waves travel through Earth's interior?

What was the name of the ancient supercontinent that Wegener proposed?

Who proposed the hypothesis of continental drift?

Which type of stress is shown in this image?

Which types of waves are the first to arrive on a seismogram?

Which type of stress is shown in this image?

The name for the flowing portion of the mantle where convection current occur.

Which type of stress is shown in this image?

Using the image, identify the type of Plate Boundary

Which type of wave moves the fastest?