Seismic Jeopardy

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Seismic Jeopardy
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Vocab for 100

• What is a Geochronology

Study of the age of the earth
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Vocab for 200

• What is Basalt

Type of rock that when heat is applied, melts
into flowing lava
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Vocab for 300

• The name of the first waves felt in an earthquake
  that squeeze and stretch

Primary waves
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Vocab for 400

• The official name for the study of earthquake
  activity

Seismology
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Vocab for 500

• The name of all the smaller quakes that follow
  the main earthquake

Aftershocks
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Volcano for 100

• Yellowstone is considered a.

Supervolcano
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Volcano for 200

• The top outer-edge of the volcano is called

The Caldera
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Volcano for 300

• How does puke, toilet water and diarrhea have to
  do with volcanoes

Puke Pyroclastic flows, when it hits water
Lahar, (both from a composite volvano) and a
shield volcano is the earths diarrhea
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Volcano for 400

• Volcanic openings under the ocean that belch out
  black smoke are called

Black Smokers
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Volcano for 500

• What type of rock is usually involved with
  composite volcanoes

Granite
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Plate Boundary for 100

• Seismic characteristics of a sub-duction zone

Shallow and deep earthquakes along one side of
the plate bound
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Plate Boundary for 200

• Volcanic characteristics of a subduction zone

Tall narrow volcanic mountain range
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Plate Boundary for 300

• Seismic characteristics of a divergent zone

Shallow consistent pattern of earthquakes evenly
distributed between the plate boundary
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Plate Boundary for 400

• Continent to Continent convergence produces what
  type of volcanic activity

It produces no volcanic activity
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Plate Boundary for 500

• When the seafloor spreading is wider in one
  divergent zone vs. another, what does this
  indicate

The plates are spreading faster where its wider
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Myths and Engines for 100

• Lunar.?

The moon is what makes the plates move
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Myths and Engines for 200

• The Hawaiian goddess thought responsible for
  volcanoes

Pelee
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Myths and Engines for 300

• How does the difference in Density of the Earth
  explain how the plates move?

Difference in density between the lithosphere and
mantle pulls the plate down to melt it
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Myths and Engines for 400

• Explain Mantle Convection

Warmer material moves to the surface and cooler
material moves towards the core (think convection
oven)
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Myths and Engines for 500

• How does centrifugal pull explain plate movement?

The rotational velocity of the Earth spinning
forces the plates to move
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Misc for 100

• What was Pangaea

All land masses were one
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Misc for 200

• What does the Richter Scale measure

Scale used to determine earthquake force
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Misc for 300

• Types of volcanoes in a sub-duction zone

Explosive composite volcanoes
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Misc for 400

• What is vertical displacement, what is horizontal
  displacement

Vertical change in elevation of one or both
blocks involved in the quake. Horizontal a
change in location on a flat plane ( move further
north or south, but no elevation change)
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Misc for 500

• What is one engine theory

Movement of the plates is caused by magma welling
up at divergent plate boundaries.
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FINAL JEOPARDY

• Loma Prieta Earthquake

What are the 4 (geochronology, Seismology,
Geography, and Volcanology) aspects of a
divergent plate boundry
Geochronolgy young sea floor earth Seismology
shallow consisitant earthquakes on both sides of
the plate boundary Geography short wide
mountain ranges and rift valleys Volcanology
blacksmokers (water) volcanoes in basalt areas.
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