Plate Boundaries Vs. Plate Tectonics

Question 1

it consists of a seismometer for sensing ground motion, a clock for determining time.

Answer 1

Seismic station

Question 2

can move through solid rock and fluids, like water or the liquid layers of the earth

Answer 2

Primary Wave

Question 3

fastest kind of body wave

Answer 3

Primary Wave

Question 4

Two kinds of Seismic waves

Answer 4

Body waves, Surface Waves

Question 5

Two types of body waves

Answer 5

Primary Wave, Secondary Wave.

Question 6

It pushes and pulls the rock it moves through just like sound waves
push and pull the air (body)

Answer 6

Primary Wave

Question 7

This wave moves rock up and down, or side-to-side (body)

Answer 7

Secondary Wave.

Question 8

Slower kind of body wave

Answer 8

Secondary wave.

Question 9

This wave can only move through solid rock

Answer 9

Secondary wave.

Question 10

The two kinds of surface waves

Answer 10

Love wave, Rayleigh wave.

Question 11

A british mathematician who
worked out the mathematical model for
the love wave

Answer 11

Augustus Edward
Hough Love.

Question 12

The fastest kind of surface wave.

Answer 12

Love wave.

Question 13

Surface wave that moves the ground side to side, similar to a snake.

Answer 13

Love wave

Question 14

Who mathematically predicted the existence of the Rayleigh wave?

Answer 14

John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh (Rayleigh wave)

Question 15

rolls along the ground just like a wave rolls across a lake or an ocean

Answer 15

Rayleigh Wave

Question 16

scientific theory that explains how
major landforms are created as a result of Earth’s subterranean movements.

Answer 16

Plate Tectonics

Question 17

it moves the ground up and down, and side-to-side in the same direction that the wave is moving. (surface)

Answer 17

Rayleigh Wave

Question 18

When was the Plate Tectonics theory solidified?

Answer 18

1960’s

Question 19

Father of “Plate Tectonic Theory”

Answer 19

Alfred Lothar Wegener

Question 20

Is the upper mechanical layer of the Earth that is divided into tectonic plates that constantly move

Answer 20

Lithosphere

Question 21

Moves around 1-3 inches per year

Answer 21

Lithosphere

Question 22

It is where tectonic plates meet or interact. Most geologically active places on earth

Answer 22

Plate Boundaries

Question 23

Plates that move away from each other. It is generally situated on the
ocean floor along the crests of mid-oceanic ridges

Answer 23

Divergent Plate Boundary

Question 24

Where lithospheric plates move toward each other.

Answer 24

Convergent Plate Boundary.

Question 25

Where plates move horizontally past each other. (plate boundary)

Answer 25

Transform Plate Boundary

Question 26

more destructive type of body wave

Answer 26

S waves