Fossil plant whose remains were found in Africa, South America, Antarctica, India, and Australia.
Glossopteris
Which type of plate boundaries exhibits when two adjacent boundaries move towards each other?
Convergent plate boundary
What are the two smaller supercontinents that formed when Pangaea began breaking apart?
Laurasia and Gondwana
It measures the strength of shaking produced by the earthquake at a certain location and is determined from effects on people, human structures, and the natural environment.
Intensity
What do you call to the force that drives the plates to move around?
Convection Current
Which theory suggests that the crust is made of plates that interact in various ways?
Plate Tectonics Theory
Which type of wave travels fastest to reach the recording station?
P-wave
The type of stress that pulls rock apart, common at divergent boundaries.
Tensional Stress
What do you call to the point on the earth's surface vertically above the hypocenter (or focus)
Epicenter
What makes up the lithosphere?
Crust and upper mantle
What is the basis of scientists in dividing the Earth’s lithosphere into plates?
Location of active volcanoes, earthquake epicenters, and mountain ranges
How many recording stations are needed in triangulation method?
3
The place where oceanic crust sinks back into the mantle, balancing the creation of new crust.
Subduction zone
What do you call to the location where two plates meet?
Plate Boundaries
Which layer of the Earth is responsible for the Earth's magnetic field?
Outer Core
It refers to the long chains of mountains located on the ocean floor where seafloor spreading takes place.
Mid-oceanic ridge
Which type of crust is less dense?
Continental Crust
What do you call to the outermost rigid layer of the Earth?
Lithosphere
What do you call to the soft, weak upper portion of the mantle?
Asthenosphere
What do you call to the instruments used to record the motion of the ground during an earthquake?
Seismograph
Which layer of the Earth is made up of solid iron and nickel?
Inner Core
Which is largest among the 7 major plates of the world?
Pacific Plate
What are the 5 layers of the Earth according to the mechanical properties