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Geopardy Plate Ref Tabs Waves A Drift’n EQ’s Techs

Geopardy Plate Ref Tabs Waves A Drift’n EQ’s Techs 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500

Plate Techs - 100 Continents move around because of these currents in partly melted material below them. Answer

Plate Techs - 200 Convection currents that move the continents happen in this sub-layer of the Earth. Answer

This is the interface between the crust and the asthenosphere. Plate Techs - 300 This is the interface between the crust and the asthenosphere. Answer

Plate Techs - 400 This is the name given to the process of an oceanic plate sliding under a continental plate. Answer

Plate Techs - 500 This is the most common type of plate boundary in the middle of the oceans. Answer

This is the name of the upper mantle. Reference Tables - 100 This is the name of the upper mantle. Answer

This is the depth at the mantle outer core boundary?. Reference Tables - 200 This is the depth at the mantle outer core boundary?. Answer

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The temperature at the inner core/outer core interface. Reference Tables - 300 The temperature at the inner core/outer core interface. Answer

The name of the plate that is 130 °E and 20 °N. Reference Tables - 400 The name of the plate that is 130 °E and 20 °N. Answer

Reference Tables - 500 The hemisphere (north or south) that most of the USA was in 458 million years ago. Answer

Stops when it hits the outer core and WHY? Waves - 100 Stops when it hits the outer core and WHY? Answer

This wave vibrates perpendicular to its direction of propagation. Waves - 200 This wave vibrates perpendicular to its direction of propagation. Answer

A P-wave will travel this far in 7 minutes. Waves - 300 A P-wave will travel this far in 7 minutes. Answer

Waves - 400 A seismic station on the other side of the Earth will only pick up this type of wave. Answer

Waves - 500 This type of wave is made by compressing and expanding the rock material. Answer

A Drift'n - 100 When looking at Africa and South America, this was the first clue that the continents were once joined. Answer

This type of plate boundary causes the continents to split apart. A Drift'n - 200 This type of plate boundary causes the continents to split apart. Answer

This is the direction that the South American Plate is moving. A Drift'n - 300 This is the direction that the South American Plate is moving. Answer

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A Drift'n - 400 Stripes on the ocean floor caused by this give further evidence that the continents are splitting. Answer

Since the continents have split, this type of crust is younger. A Drift'n - 500 Since the continents have split, this type of crust is younger. Answer

This is the spot within the Earth where an earthquake starts. Answer

This rating system tells how much energy is released in an earthquake. Earthquakes - 200 This rating system tells how much energy is released in an earthquake. Answer

Earthquakes - 300 This is how far away is the epicenter if the difference in arrival times between the P wave and S wave is 2 minutes. Answer

Earthquakes - 400 This is the minimum number of seismic stations needed to locate the epicenter of an earthquake. Answer

Earthquakes - 500 Hawaii is an example of this type of active region that is not on the edge of a crustal plate. Answer

What are convection currents? Answer Plate Techs - 100 What are convection currents?

What is the asthenosphere? Answer Plate Techs - 200 What is the asthenosphere?

Answer Plate Techs - 300 What is the Moho?

Answer Plate Techs - 400 What is subduction?

What is a divergent plate boundary? Answer - Plate Techs - 500 What is a divergent plate boundary?

Answer Reference Tables - 100 What is the Asthenosphere?

Answer Reference Tables - 200 What is 2900 km?

Answer Reference Tables - 300 What is 6,300°C?

Answer Reference Tables - 400 What is the Philippine Plate?

Answer - Reference Tables - 500 What is the Southern Hemisphere?

Answer Waves - 100 What are S-waves? Because the outer core is liquid and S waves travel through solids only

Answer Waves - 200 What is the S-wave?

Answer Waves - 300 What is 4,000 km?

Answer Waves - 400 What is a P-wave?

Answer - Waves - 500 What is a P-wave?

What is the “puzzle-fit” of the continents. Answer A Drift'n - 100 What is the “puzzle-fit” of the continents.

What is a divergent plate boundary? Answer A Drift'n - 200 What is a divergent plate boundary?

Answer A Drift'n - 300 What is West?

Answer A Drift'n - 400 Magnetic reversals.

Answer - A Drift'n - 500 What is oceanic crust?

Answer Earthquakes - 100 What is the focus?

What is the Richter Scale? Answer Earthquakes - 200 What is the Richter Scale?

Answer Earthquakes - 300 What is 1200 km away?

Answer Earthquakes - 400 What are three.

Answer - Earthquakes - 500 What is a hot spot?