Science

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