A | B |
Who proposed the Continental Drift Theory. | Alfred Wegener |
The outermost layer of the earth | The crust |
Convection currents occur in this part of the mantle | Asthenosphere |
The Father of Modern Geology (geologic time scale) | James Hutton |
one large super continent | Pangaea |
20 plates | The lithosphere is divided into ? |
The Theory of Sea Floor Spreading | Harry Hess |
Hawaii's volcanoes is due to? | Hot Spots |
S-waves ??? when they hit the earths outer core | Reflect |
P-waves ??? at the core-mantle boundary | refract |
large mountain range in the mid Atlantic stretching 46K miles | Mid-Atlantic ridge |
The reversal of the Earths magnetic field | Sea Floor Spreading |
Earths core is made of? | Iron and Nickel |
Oceanic crust | Dense and thin crust |
Continental Crust | Less dense and thicker crust |
When one plate goes beneath another plate | subduction |
When two plates move together | convergent |
When two plates move against each other | transform |
The earths lithosphere divided into moving plates | Plate tectonics |
measures ground movement | seimograph |
The height of the seismograph readings | Intensity of an earthquake |
Difference in arrival time between P and S waves | Distance to the epicenter of an earthquake |
How may seismograph readings for finding the epicenter of an earthquake? | 3 seismograph readings |
Each magnitude movement on the Richter scale | A magnitude of 10 |
The place where slippage first occurs | The focus of an earthquake |