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This is where plates meet.
Fault
Boundary
Earthquake
Epicenter
He proposed the idea of continental drift theory.
Alfred Wegener
Charles Darwin
Clarence Dutton
John Dalton
A line which may be visible or not that occurs on the Earth’s surface.
Hanging Wall
Footwall
Fault Trace
It is any opening in the ground where magma comes out.
Mountain
Hill
Volcano
Valley
These are massive and irregular slabs of solid rock that envelope the surface of the Earth.
Ocean basin
Continental Lithosphere
Magma
Tectonic Plates
It is a sudden, violent shifting of massive plates underneath the Earth’s surface.
Volcanic Eruption
Earthquake
Typhoon
Landslide
A fault in which two blocks of crust slide past each other on the same plane.
Strike-slip fault
Abnormal Fault
Normal Fault
Reverse Fault
This is the recording that the seismograph makes.
Seismograph
Fault Line
Earthquake
Seismogram
It describes the severity of an earthquake in terms of its effects on the Earth’s surface, humans, and structures.
Intensity
Magnitude
Fault Line
Seismograph
These are the two supercontinents formed when Pangaea broke.
Continea
Laurasia
Gondwanaland
Isostelecia
It refers to the forces and events that lead to a large structural deformation of Earth’s lithosphere.
(a)
These are the locations on earth’s surface that has experienced active volcanic activities for a long period
(a)
The boundary where two plates are moving away from each other
(a)
It is a fracture in the rocks that make up the Earth's crust
(a)
Three things that will allow a seaquake to generate tsunamis.
A minimum of at least magnitude 7 on the Richter scale must be recorded.
The seabed must be lifted or lowered by the quake.
The seabed must be displaced sidewards.
The epicenter of the Earthquake must be near to Earth's surface.
The area where the fault occurs is called fault plane.
False
True
An earthquake is recorded by an instrument.
Seismogram
Seismograph
A fault which the hanging wall moves down relative to the footwall as extension.
Normal Fault
Reverse Fault
Strike-slip Fault
A fault in which the hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall as a result of compression.
Normal Fault
Reverse Fault
Strike-slip Fault
These are small earthquakes that commonly precede a major earthquake
(a)
