Science test #2

Question 1

Support for Wegener’s hypothesis of continental drift includes evidence of changes in

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Fossils

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What is the location of an Earthquake on earth’s surface

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Epicenter

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New ocean floor is constantly being produced through the process known as

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Seafloor spreading

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Scientists discovered oceanic rock to be

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Younger than continental rocks

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The hypothesis of continental drift was rejected by scientists because

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Evidence didn’t show they waved

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Vibrations of an earthquake are caused by

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Tectonic plates colliding, scraping, or moving away from each other.

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The german scientist Alfred Wegener proposed the existence of a huge landmass called

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Pangea

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Earth’s magnetic poles shift every few thousand years causes

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Paleomagnetism in rocks

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The outer most layer of earth is the

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lithosphere

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Lens shaped feature that forms close to the surface

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Laccoliths

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The theory of plate tectonics says that plates move because of

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Convection Currents

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All plates float on the

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Asthenosphere

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The location of an earthquake beneath earth’s surface

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Focus

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An underwater mountain chain formed from seafloor spreading is called a

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Mid-ocean ridge

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The alternating pattern of normal and reverse polarity rocks proves

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Continental Drift

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Tool used to measure earthquakes

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Seismograph

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What is the first waves to arrive after an earthquake

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P-waves

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The three biggest factors in earthquake damage are fires, landslides and

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Buildings collapsing

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A group of adjacent mountains

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Mountain Range

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A natural elevation of earth’s surface

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Mountain

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_ to _ Collisions that produce volcanic islands arcs

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Oceanic to Oceanic

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An earthquake location can be found by

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Using 3 seismographs

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Collisions that produce continental volcanic arcs

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Oceanic to Continental

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Lava that resembles long, braided ropes

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Pahoehoe lava

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Flat mountains formed when thick layers are uplifted

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Plateaus

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Large masses of igneous rocks formed when magma oozed deep beneath the surface, must be greater than 100km.

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Batholics

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High mountains formed when continents collide

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Folded mountains

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Volcanic mountain formed when lava cools before reaching the surface

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Dome

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Adjacent mountain ranges

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Mountain System

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Boundary where two plates move away from each other.

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Divergent Boundary

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Boundary where to plates move toward each other

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Convergent Boundary

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Boundary where two plates move past each other

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Transform Fault Boundary

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Slow waves that cannot travel through liquids

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S-waves

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Area where oceanic plates meet continental plates

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Subduction Zone

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The measure of the thickness of a liquid

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Viscosity

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Area that forms along a divergent boundary

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Rift Valley

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Long valley formed when blocks slip downward

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Graben Valley

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Divergent boundaries make

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New Oceans

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Boundary that forms uplift mountains

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Convergent Boundary

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Large mountain systems are called

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Mountain Belt

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One plate going beneath another plate causes

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Subduction

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Boundary that causes earthquakes

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Transform fault boundary

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Force that moves magma up a volcano

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Gasses expanding

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Viscous magma produces

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More violent eruptions

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Ash, dust, and other particles that erupt out of a volcano

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Pyroclastic materials

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Scale used to measure earthquakes that records the highest wave

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Richter scale

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Broad, gently, sloping volcanoes with calm, slow eruptions

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Shield Volcano

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Steep sloped volcano made of pyroclastic materials

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Cinder cone

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Opening at the top of volcanoes formed by collapse

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Calderas

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Intrusive igneous features

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Dikes

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What happened when continents once formed a single landmass that broke apart and pieces moved to their present location

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Continental drift

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Layer of earth below the lithosphere

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Asthenosphere

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Mountains formed where earth's crust has been broken into large blocks then lifted and tilted

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Fault-Block mountains

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Volcano formed when plates move across areas of hot magma

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Hotspot volcano

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What is the __ to ___ on the boundaries that can cause subduction

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Oceanic to Continental

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Scale that measures how much material is moved or displaced in an earthquake

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Momentum magnitude scale

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Liquid rock beneath earth's surface

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Magma

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Column shaped features that form when magma is close to the surface

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Sills

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Narrow valley at the center of diverging boundaries

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Rift valley

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Recorded measurements of an earthquake

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Seismogram

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Tall, broad-based volcano built from alternating of lava and pyroclastic material

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Composite Volcano