all lessons for 1st quarter

Question 1

Term derned from a Greek word “tekton” means “carpenter” or “builder”

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Tectonic

Question 2

Also called “Lithospheric plates”

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Tectonic plates

Question 3

Solid, outer part of the Earth

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Lithosphere

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Hotter and ductile. Plate tectonic movements.

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Asthenosphere

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Pacific plate, Indo-Australian plate, North American Plate, South American plate, African plate, Antarctic plate and Eurasian plate.

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Major tectonic plates

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Philippine sea plate, Nazca plate, Scotia plate, Juan De Fuca plate, Caribbean plate, Arabian plate, Cocos plate, Indian plate

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Minor tectonic plates

Question 7

Father of Plate Tectonics

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Alfred Wegener

Question 8

Explained that there was a supercontinent named “Rodina”

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Continental drift theory

Question 9

Thin outer layer of the earth

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Crust

Question 10

Density is much less as compared to the oceanic crust.

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Continental lithosphere

Question 11

Covers the ocean basins

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Oceanic lithosphere

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Two types of lithospheric plates.

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Continental and Oceanic plate

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Deepest hole ever dug?

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Kola a super hole in Russia

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Almost two thirds of the earth’s mass

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Mantle

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Movement of materials, transfers energy from one place to another.

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Convection Currents

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A liquid that is made out of iron and nickel

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Outer core

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Solid that is made out of iron and nickel

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inner core

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An opening in the earth’s crust that allows molten rock, gasses and debris to escape to the surface.

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Volcano

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Inside the volcano

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Magma

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Outside the Volcano

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Lava

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Where magma goes through

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Main vent

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Proof that a Volcanic eruption

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Ash cloud

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Types of magma

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Basaltik, Andesitic, Rhyolitic

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Resistance to flow

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Viscosity

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1,000 to 1,200 C

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Basaltic

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800 to 1,000 C

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Andesitic

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650 to 800 C

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Rhyolitic

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Basaltic-to-andesitic

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Nonexplosive

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Andesitic-to-Rhyolitic

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Explosive

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Manifestation of released energy in deformed rocks

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Earthquake

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Immediate Area where the displacement of the plates takes place

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Focus or hypocenter

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Point on Earth's surface nearest to where the earthquake originate

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Epicenter

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Between 0 to 20 km deep

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Shallow-focus

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Between 20-700 km deep

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Deep-Focus

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Energy that is being released by the earthquake

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Seismic Wave

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Study of earthquake

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Seismology

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Person who studies earthquake

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Seismologist

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Device to track seismic waves

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Seismograph

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Record by a seismograph

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Seismogram

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a type of wave that can travel from liquid to solid

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D-waves

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Can only travel at solid

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s-wave

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Zigzag

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Surface wave

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Fastest at 48 km per seconds

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Compressional or primary waves

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2.5 to 4 km

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Shear or secondary waves

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Moves transverse to the direction

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Love waves