1. Locating Earthquakes MISC. Plates Earth’s Interior Plate Interactions
Eleanor M. Savko FJ
MISC.
Plates
12/2/2018
Earth’s
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Plate
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2. Minimum number of seismographs needed to locate the epicenter ?

3. 3

4. If the difference in arrival times of the P- & S- waves increases the distance from the epicenter ______

5. increases

6. The epicenter of an earthquake is located where all the circles ______

7. meet

8. Number of earthquakes predicted

10. How many types of waves does an earthquake create ?

11. 2

12. What type of plate is more dense ?

13. Ocean- it is made of basalt

14. What is the name of Wegener’s super continent

15. Pangaea

16. What are Hawaii and Yellowstone located over.

17. Hot Spot

18. Where are most volcanoes, the answer is a specific name for the edge of the Pacific Plate

19. Ring of Fire

20. of the Atlantic Ocean floor
What is located right
down the middle
of the Atlantic Ocean floor

21. volcanoes

22. What rock continental
plates are made of.

23. granite

24. What rock ocean
plates are made of.

25. basalt

26. What is the other name
of a plate ?

27. lithosphere

28. What the plates slide on

29. asthenosphere

30. How many major plates are there ?
Daily Double
How many major plates are there ?

31. 10-12

32. The thickest layer of the earth’s interior

33. mantle

34. Thinnest layer of the earth

35. crust

36. Which layer is liquid

37. Outer core

38. Earth’s interior in order
List the 4 layers of
Earth’s interior in order

39. Crust, mantle, outer core,
& inner core

40. How did we figure out what the inside of the Earth was made of ?

41. earthquakes

42. Plate boundary that creates folded mountains.

43. Convergent continent
and continent

44. that creates a mid-ocean
Type of plate boundary
that creates a mid-ocean
ridge and rift zone.

45. divergent

46. Type of plate boundary that only creates earthquakes.

47. Transform fault

48. What are the 2 types of
plate boundaries that
create trenches

49. Convergent ocean – ocean and convergent ocean - continent

50. boundaries create volcanoes ?
Daily Double
How many plate
boundaries create volcanoes ?

51. 3

52. What is the name of the volcanic mountains created at a convergent ocean-ocean boundary. What is an example.
Island Arc
Japan
Final Jeopardy
Plate Interactions