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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is Magma when it reaches the surface? | Lava |
| What can cause Tsunamis, Flooding, Fires, Building Collapses, Deaths, Etc.? | Earthquakes |
| Where is the Worlds Longest Mountain Range? | The Mid-Atlantic |
| What are Earthquakes recorded by? | Seismographs |
| A crack in the Earths Crust is called what? | A Fault |
| What is the Ring Of Fire? | A circle of Volcanoes around the Pacific Ocean. |
| Most Earthquakes occur at what? | Plate Boundries |
| Earthquakes are caused by what? | Plates, Sliding past Each Other, Pulling Apart, and Going Under Each Other. |
| Why does Oceanic Plates Slide under Continental Plates? | Oceanic Plates are Thinner |
| What is the Proof of Pangea? | The Continents look like Puzzle Pieces, Fossil of the same Animal/Plant are found on diffrent Continents, Rocks of the same kind are found on Africa and South America. |
| Explain the Theory of Plate Techtonics? | There are 20 diffrent Plates of Crust above the Mantle. |
| What created the Himalaya Mountains? | Indias Plate collided with Eurasias Plate, it is still going on today. |
| What is a Hot Spot? | A chamber of Extra-Hot Magma that Shoots Magma up to the surface creating Volcanoes, Hawaii under a Hot Spot, Which created them, They are Volcanoes, The new ones are still being made, the old ones have dicendagrated, the Hot Spot doesnt move Hawaii does. |
| A Trasform Boundrie can be found at Where? | The San Andreas Fault |
| A Divergent Boundrie can be found at Where? | The Mid-Atlantic Rid |
| Where can a Convergent Boundrie be found? | All around the Pacific Plate |
| Why do Volcanoes form at Convergent Boundries? | Because of Subduction |