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1. The Richter Scale measure the (Blank) of an earthquake

2. How did the studies of fossils support the idea of Pangea?

3. At transform boundaries, how do plates move?

4. What happens when a continental plate crashes into an oceanic plate?

5. Characteristics of oceanic crust:

6. In between earthquakes, energy builds up between the two plates. This energy is called.....

7. Continental crust is denser than oceanic crust

8. True or False.... Florida sits on the caribbean plate

9. At subduction zones, (Blank) can form and ( blank) is destroyed.

10. What causes earthquakes to happen?

11. True or False.... Tsunamies can be caused by the eruptions of volcanoes

12. A convection current is...

13. What are the two things that can happen at convergent boundaries??

14. Earthquakes often occur at subduction zones

15. Why are there very few earthquakes in Florida?

16. What happens when a continental. plate crashes into another continental plate?

17. What is it called when a tectonic plate sinks below another tectonic plate?

18. True or False.... In the United States, the highest risk of earthquakes is on the East coast.

19. Volcanoes that contain magma with more gas have more

20. True or False.... Magma is lava that has reached Earth's surface

21. What is Alfred Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift.

22. What is the ring of fire?

23. What are the characteristics of continental crust:

24. What is responsible for the movement of tectonic plates?

25. True or False.... Energy from an earthquake travels as transverse waves

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