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4. Earthquakes Jeopardy 100 200 100 200 300 400 500 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 Seismic Movement Locating an Earthquake Down Under! From the “Core” Faults and Boundaries FINAL

5. Template created by Theresa MeyerTheresa Meyer Seismic Movement 100 When the earth ruptures and suddenly releases energy What is an earthquake?

6. Template created by Theresa MeyerTheresa Meyer Seismic Movement 200 Waves generated by an earthquake. What are seismic waves?

7. Template created by Theresa MeyerTheresa Meyer Seismic Movement 300 First seismic wave to reach a seismograph station. What is a primary or p -wave?

8. Template created by Theresa MeyerTheresa Meyer Seismic Movement 400 Seismic body waves that move side to side. What are secondary or s - waves?

9. Template created by Theresa MeyerTheresa Meyer Seismic Movement 500 Waves that travels on or near the surface of the earth. These waves can cause extensive damage to buildings. What are surface waves?

10. Template created by Theresa MeyerTheresa Meyer Locating an Earthquake 100 Location where an earthquake occurs and energy is released. What is the focus?

11. Template created by Theresa MeyerTheresa Meyer Locating an Earthquake 200 The point on the surface of the earth directly above the focus of an earthquake. What is the epicenter?

12. Template created by Theresa MeyerTheresa Meyer Locating an Earthquake 300 Scientists use data recorded from ______________ to figure out where an earthquake occurred. What are seismograph stations?

13. Template created by Theresa MeyerTheresa Meyer Locating an Earthquake 400 The term used to describe how three seismograph stations are used to determine an epicenter. What is triangulation?

14. Template created by Theresa MeyerTheresa Meyer Locating an Earthquake 500 The reason three seismograph stations are used to triangulate an earthquake. What is accuracy? Three locations are needed to find ONE intersecting point. (circle lab)

15. Template created by Theresa MeyerTheresa Meyer Down Under! 100 The place where plates meet. What is a plate boundary?

16. Template created by Theresa MeyerTheresa Meyer Down Under! 200 A warmer less dense plate. What is a continental plate?

17. Template created by Theresa MeyerTheresa Meyer Down Under! 300 This dense plate sinks and slides under the continental plate. What is an oceanic plate?

18. Template created by Theresa MeyerTheresa Meyer Down Under 400 Plates float on a flowing, taffy-like, solid upper mantle called _________. What is the asthenosphere?

19. Template created by Theresa MeyerTheresa Meyer Down Under! 500 A trench or deep valley is formed. What is when an oceanic plate moves under another plate ?

20. Template created by Theresa MeyerTheresa Meyer Convection Within 100 When heat moves through liquid or gas. What is convection?

21. Template created by Theresa MeyerTheresa Meyer Convection Within 200 The core of the earth heats this substance causing a convection cell to occur. What is magma?

22. Template created by Theresa MeyerTheresa Meyer DAILY DOUBLE - Convection Within 300 The layer in the earth where a convection cell is located. What is the mantle?

23. Template created by Theresa MeyerTheresa Meyer Convection Within 400 Magma begins to cool as it rises and comes in contact with this layer of the earth. What is the crust OR rigid mantle OR Lithosphere?

24. Template created by Theresa MeyerTheresa Meyer Convection Within 500 The liquid outer core of the earth is made from this element. What is iron?

25. Template created by Theresa MeyerTheresa Meyer Faults and Boundaries 100 A fracture in rock, along which rock on opposite sides of the fracture move. What is a fault?

26. Template created by Theresa MeyerTheresa Meyer Faults and Boundaries 200 Place where broken pieces of the lithosphere meet. What is a plate boundary?

27. Template created by Theresa MeyerTheresa Meyer Faults and Boundaries 300 A theory that plates float on the asthenosphere and that interactions among the plates are related to earthquakes and volcanic activity. What is plate tectonics?

28. Template created by Theresa MeyerTheresa Meyer Faults and Boundaries 400 Faults only exist along plate boundaries. (true or false) What is FALSE?

29. Template created by Theresa MeyerTheresa Meyer Faults and Boundaries 500 A mountain like landform that develops when plates separate and new ocean lithosphere is formed. What is a mid-ocean ridge?

30. The German scientists that proposed the theory of continental drift (Pangaea). Who is Alfred Wegener? FINAL JEOPARDY!