Natural Disasters and Plate Tectonics

Question 1

How many seismograph station are required to get an accurate reading of an earthquake's origin?

Accepted Answer

3

Question 2

What type of volcanoes have a high cone shape and cause violent eruptions?

Accepted Answer

Cinder

Question 3

The super continent that once existed is called what?

Accepted Answer

Pangaea

Question 4

The pool of magma at the base of a volcano is called the what?

Accepted Answer

Magma Chamber

Question 5

Who was the leading scientist behind the theory of continental drift?

Accepted Answer

Wegener

Question 6

How fast lava can flow down the side of a volcano is determined by what property?

Accepted Answer

Viscosity

Question 7

What is the fastest type of seismic wave?

Accepted Answer

Primary

Question 8

Vibrations caused by the breaking of rocks is called a what?

Accepted Answer

Earthquake

Question 9

Convergent boundaries are also which type of fault?

Accepted Answer

Reverse

Question 10

Transform Boundaries are also known as what?

Accepted Answer

Strike-slip Fault

Question 11

Which type of plate is thinner?

Accepted Answer

Oceanic

Question 12

What causes plates to move?

Accepted Answer

convection currents

Question 13

The energy of an earthquake that gets released in waves are known as what?

Accepted Answer

Seismic

Question 14

What is the area called at a convergent boundary where one plate goes beneath another plate?

Accepted Answer

Subduction Zone

Question 15

Which layer of the earth is the thinnest?

Accepted Answer

Lithosphere

Question 16

The point in the Earth where the energy of an earthquake is released is known as what?

Accepted Answer

Focus

Question 17

Which phenomenon happens the most when two plates slide past one another?

Accepted Answer

Earthquakes

Question 18

What is the transfer of heat by circular movement?

Accepted Answer

Convection

Question 19

Which number represents the asthenosphere?

Accepted Answer

4

Question 20

What type of boundary occurs when two plates slide past each other in opposite directions?

Accepted Answer

Transform

Question 21

What type of volcanoes are the widest and have the weakest eruptions?

Accepted Answer

Shield

Question 22

In order for a tornado to be classified as a tornado it must touch what?

Accepted Answer

Ground

Question 23

The mid-ocean ridge in the Atlantic Ocean moves at about 2 cm each year. What do we call this?

Accepted Answer

Seafloor Spreading

Question 24

What type of seismic wave causes the most destruction?

Accepted Answer

Surface

Question 25

What shoot out of the top of a volcano during an eruption?

Accepted Answer

All of These, Lava, Gas, Ash

Question 26

An area where rocks break apart and move in different directions is called a what?

Accepted Answer

Fault

Question 27

What is this a picture of?

Accepted Answer

Convergent

Question 28

Which type of plate is older?

Accepted Answer

Continental

Question 29

What number(s) represents the inner core?

Accepted Answer

1

Question 30

Normal faults go along with which boundary?

Accepted Answer

Divergent

Question 31

The crust and the upper mantle are known officially as what?

Accepted Answer

lithosphere

Question 32

What is the weakest type of tornado out of the following choices?

Accepted Answer

EF 0

Question 33

What type of tornado is the most deadly out of the choices?

Accepted Answer

EF4

Question 34

A safety precaution that means a tornado has been spotted in the area is what?

Accepted Answer

Warning

Question 35

What layer of the earth is responsible for the convection currents that move the plates?

Accepted Answer

Asthenospehre

Question 36

What number(s) represent the Lithosphere?

Accepted Answer

5

Question 37

Which is NOT used as evidence for continental drift?

Accepted Answer

People

Question 38

What is the largest section of the Earth's layers?

Accepted Answer

mantle

Question 39

Which scale measures an earthquake's intensity?

Accepted Answer

Mercalli

Question 40

The point on Earth's surface directly above an earthquakes focus is called what?

Accepted Answer

Epicenter

Question 41

What is the theory that states the crust is broken into segments that move on the mantle?

Accepted Answer

Plate Tectonics

Question 42

What type of boundary occurs when two plates split apart from each other?

Accepted Answer

Divergent

Question 43

What type of boundary occurs when two plates collide into each other?

Accepted Answer

convergent

Question 44

Rotating column of air, that extends from a thunderstorm to the ground is called what?

Accepted Answer

Tornado

Question 45

The EF scale was developed to measure what natural disaster?

Accepted Answer

Tornado

Question 46

What type of front(s) are needed for a tornado to form?

Accepted Answer

Warm and Cold

Question 47

Which number(s) represent the mantle?

Accepted Answer

3

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