Which layer is the rocky, outermost layer?

Which process uses rock layers and index fossils to determine an object's estimated age?

What do you call do you call remains of plants and animals that are found trapped deep in the layers of rock?

What do you call the process of using the location and depth of where a fossil is found to estimate age?

This layer of the Earth is found directly below the crust.

Which part of the mantle has a semi-fluid consistency and is always in motion?

What do you call it when the tectonic plates are move apart, causing earthquakes, volcanoes and new land to form?

What do you call it when tectonic plates slide past each other?

Where would a geologist find a fault?

What is the theory that states that continents are part of the crust, connected to the lithosphere and affected by the molten asthenosphere that allows them to move?

Which layer of the Earth is solid because of high temperature and high pressure? In the egg analogy, this was the yolk.

What is the process that uses analysis of the decay of atomic particles to determine exact age?

Which method of relative dating involves using organisms that were alive during a specific time period as a guide for comparison to determine age?

What theory refers to the movement of Earth's plates

What causes Earth's plates to move?

A point on Earth’s surface right above the focus of an earthquake.

Which type of seismic waves cause the most damage?

What event happens when there is a sudden, violent shaking of tectonic plates?

When scientists map the location of earthquakes, where do they find that most earthquakes happen?

Why aren't all earthquakes recorded?

Which scale measures the magnitude, or size, of an earthquake?

What device is used to measure the intensity of an earthquake?

A break in Earth’s crust along which rocks move is called ___________

A giant wave usually caused by an earthquake beneath the ocean floor is called __________________

________________ caused by the movement of the Earth’s massive tectonic plates generates tremendous force in the crust causing an ___________________.

The most destructive type of wave is a

What is a tracing of an earthquake's motion that is created by a seismometer?

An earthquake scored high on the Richter scale but low on the Mercalli scale. Why?

How much bigger is a magnitude 8 earthquake compared to magnitude 6 quake on the Richter Scale?

Which wave can travel through solids, liquids, and gases?

Which is the fastest type of seismic wave?

What is the temporary state in which loose soil and rock materials take on the property of quicksand?

The place where the earthquake is felt on the Earth's surface is called the...

What is the instrument used to measure earthquakes?

What is the minimum number of seismograph stations needed to locate an earthquake epicenter?

Which team just won the 2018 Stanley Cup?

Which image models secondary waves?

Which type of seismic wave can travel all the way from on side of the Earth to the other?

Transform boundaries have shearing stress and _______________________ faults.

These waves are the fastest seismic waves and are the first to reach any particular location.

In these faults, the block above the fault slides down relative to the other block.

A water wave caused by an earthquake is called a __________________.

The point on earth's surface, directly above the focus (or hypocenter) is called the __________________.

Convergent boundaries have compression stress and ___________________ faults.

A force that acts on rock to change its shape or volume.

In these faults, blocks of rock move sideways on either side of the fault plane.

Stress that pull on crust and causes it to become thinner in the middle.

A stress force that squeezes rock until it bends or breaks is called _____________.

When two pieces of continental crust collide at a convergent boundary, it makes a _________________ fault.

In an earthquake, the point underground where the rock first begins to move is called the _________________.

The stress force that causes rock to be pushed into separate directions is called __________________.

The instrument that records and measures earthquake's seismic waves is called a ____________________.

A fold in the rock that bends upward into an arch is called a(n) _________________________

The epicenter of an earthquake is

Which travels fastest, always being the first detected by seismic stations?

An instrument that detects and measures earthquakes is a 

Which of the following is NOT a cause of an earthquake?

What is a break in the lithosphere along which movement in an earthquake has first occurred?

Where is the point at which the first movement occurs during an earthquake?

Where is the point on the Earth’s surface directly above the focus of an earthquake?

Which type of wave is the first to arrive after an earthquake occurs?

Which body wave squeezes and stretches rock materials as they pass through the Earth?

Which body waves cause move in a wave like pattern?

What is an instrument that detects and records waves produced by earthquakes? (This piece of equipment can measure the magnitude of an earthquake.)

What is the measure of the amount of energy released in an earthquake?

Which scale rates earthquakes based on the amount of damage done?

Which scale measures the intensity of the ground movement?

Which seismogram represents a city that is far from the epicenter of an earthquake?  

Based on the seismogram data, which city has an S-P interval of 4 seconds?

______ are the vibrations of the Earth produced by the rapid release of energy in the lithosphere.

Where is an earthquake the strongest?

What are interactions of the Earth's rigid lithospheric plates as they slide slowly over the asthenosphere.

Which of the following are evidence of plate tectonics?

225 million years there was a "super continent named___

Which seismogram represents a city that is far from the epicenter of an earthquake?

The place where an earthquake originates inside the Earth's surface is called...

The place on the Earth's surface, above the origin of the earthquake.

What is the instrument used to measure earthquakes?

This is created by earthquakes that occur on the ocean floor.

What type of fault is this?

Are plates always moving?

How do tectonic plates look like?

Transform boundaries have shearing stress and _______________________ faults.

A water wave caused by an earthquake is called a __________________.

Convergent boundaries have compression stress and ___________________ faults.

Many earthquakes happen along the borders of...

The 1989 Bay Area Earthquake that took place in California is often referred to as

Worldwide, how many Earthquakes are estimated to occur yearly?

How long do most earthquakes last (time)

Most earthquakes occur where two _____________________ meet.

Earthquakes can result in (choose all that apply)

Which seismogram represents a city that is far from the epicenter of an earthquake?

The place where an earthquake originates inside the Earth's surface is called...

The place on the Earth's surface, above the origin of the earthquake.

What is the instrument used to measure earthquakes?

This is created by earthquakes that occur on the ocean floor.

What type of fault is this?

Are plates always moving?

How do tectonic plates look like?

Transform boundaries have shearing stress and _______________________ faults.

A water wave caused by an earthquake is called a __________________.

Convergent boundaries have compression stress and ___________________ faults.

Many earthquakes happen along the borders of...

The 1989 Bay Area Earthquake that took place in California is often referred to as

Worldwide, how many Earthquakes are estimated to occur yearly?

How long do most earthquakes last (time)

Most earthquakes occur where two _____________________ meet.

Earthquakes can result in (choose all that apply)