SCIENCE 10
Plate Tectonics - Entire crust is broken and is
continuously moving
Mt. Pinatubo - volcano seen in world maps due
to eruption in 1991
Palawan - safest place
Continental edges - where volcanoes are situated
Earthquake - Common precursor
Mindanao - prone to earthquake but not a
volcanic eruption
Australia - country which doesn’t have volcanic
activity
Epicenter - directly above the surface of an
earthquake
Convergent
Eurasian - Indian
North America - Juan De Fuca
Nazca - South America
Divergent
South America - African
North America - Eurasian
Transform
San Andreas Fault
West - South America is away from africa in
what direction
Volcanic Island Arc - oceanic-oceanic
Ridge - crack on the ground underwater
Fault - crack on the dry ground
Convection current - caused by differences in
temperature resulting to variation in density
Mantle - hot molten materials rises to
Ridge Push - driving force for plate motion at
mid ocean ridges
Heat Transfer - conduction, convectio, radiation
Core - source of heat in a mantle convection
current
Pangaea - supercontinent
Seafloor Spreading - process where new oceanic
crust is formed
Alfred Lothar Wegener - German scientist that
proposed continental drift theory in 1912
Very cold temperature - Africa was once in
Near the equator - Antarctica was once located
Harry Hammond Hess - Mid Atlantic Ridge
Subduction Zone - why is earth not getting any
longer
Harry Hess and Robert Dietz - proposed seafloor
spreading
Upward - convection current direction
Continental - Continental - no volcanoes formed
African East Rift - mid ocean ridge
Oceanic subducts to continental - why are
volcanoes found in continental - oceanic
Mid Ocean Ridge - continuous mass of land
with long width and height on the ocean floor
P-wave - first type of seismic wave
S-wave - second type of earthquake wave
● Can’t travel through liquids
Seismograph - device used to record earthquake
waves
Trench - depression in the seafloor produced by
subduction process
Volcanic Island Arc - chain of volcanoes that
developed parallel to a trench
Asthenosphere - soft, weak, and plastic like
layer
Oxygen - the most abundant in earth’s crust
Inner Core - solid despite having high
temperature due to pressure freezing
Jigsaw Puzzle - Connected pieces of a
supercontinent
Fossil Evidence - preserved remains of
organisms, evidence from rocks - rocks line up
together
Coal Deposits - decomposition of swamp plants
Magnetic Reversal - can be explained through
the magnetic patterns in magnetic rocks ‘
Convection Current - less dense parchless rise,
why plates move
Inner core - 5000 degree celsius