Topic 1: Restless Earth

Question 0

What volcanoes are formed on constructive plate boundaries?

Answer 0

Shield volcanoes

Question 1

When 2 plates move away from each other

Answer 1

Constructive

Question 2

When a continental and an oceanic plate collide

Answer 2

Destructive

Question 3

Which plate sinks under the other at a destructive plate boundary?

Answer 3

Oceanic

Question 4

When 2 continental plates move towards each other

Answer 4

Collision

Question 5

What type of mountains are formed at collision plate boundaries?

Answer 5

Fold mountains

Question 6

When 2 plates slide past each other

Answer 6

Conservative

Question 7

Which plates are denser?

Answer 7

Oceanic

Question 8

What are oceanic plates made from?

Answer 8

Basalt

Question 9

What are continental plates made of?

Answer 9

Granite

Question 10

What’s an example of ‘fold’ mountains?

Answer 10

The Himalayas

Question 11

Where do earthquakes and volcanoes occur?

Answer 11

Along plate boundaries

Question 12

Which type of plate is thinner?

Answer 12

Oceanic

Question 13

If the Earth was an apple, what would the skin be equivalent to?

Answer 13

The crust

Question 14

3 reasons why the core is so hot

Answer 14

Residual heat
Friction
Radioactivity

Question 15

What is it called when convection currents move the lithosphere?

Answer 15

Slab pull

Question 16

Another name for a conservative ate boundary?

Answer 16

Transform

Question 17

What type of volcano has very small sides?

Answer 17

Super volcano

Question 18

What type of volcano is it when lava comes out like a fountain?

Answer 18

Shield volcano

Question 19

What type of volcano is it when lava spews out from a long trench?

Answer 19

Fissure volcano

Question 20

What type of volcano is it when it is explosive (ash cloud, volcanic bombs)?

Answer 20

Composite volcano

Question 21

Example of a composite volcano?

Answer 21

Mount Fuji

Question 22

Example of a fissure volcano?

Answer 22

Laki

Question 23

What are the devices used along with laser beams to see if a volcano is about to erupt?

Answer 23

Tilt metres

Question 24

What’s another word for mudflow (coming out of a volcano)?

Answer 24

Lahar

Question 25

What is the term used to describe the crust and uppermost solid mantle?

Answer 25

Lithosphere

Question 26

What is the layer just beneath the lithosphere?

Answer 26

Asthenosphere

Question 27

Roughly how hot is the inner core of the Earth?

Answer 27

5000C