Geography Practice Test

The Japanese tsunami that we studied took place in:

The three types of tectonic plat boundaries are converging, diverging, and transforming.

The mountain chain along the Eurasian plate and the Indo-Australian plate is

The mountain chain along the north american plate and the pacific plate is

The three types of earthquakes are converging, shield, and diverging.

Alfred Wegener called the super continent [blank_start]___________[blank_end]

The three most famous geologists were: 1.H[blank_start]________[blank_end] [blank_start]___________[blank_end] 2. [blank_start]__________[blank_end] T[blank_start]_________[blank_end] 3. Tuzo [blank_start]_____________[blank_end]

Tsunamis can travel at speeds of (maximum) 700 km per hour

Tsunamis can reach heights of [blank_start]____[blank_end] close to shore

Volcanoes are mountains made up of magma.

The two types of seismic waves are [blank_start]primary[blank_end] and [blank_start]secondary[blank_end]

The most destructive type of wave is called a rayleigh wave, and is when the two types of seismic waves meet.

Earthquakes are measured using the [blank_start]richter scale.[blank_end]

The theory of continental drift was created by [blank_start]Alfred Wegener[blank_end]

You lose [blank_start]1[blank_end] degree celsius per 100 meters of elevation and then [blank_start]0.6[blank_end] degrees after the condensation line.

The four eras in order have been: 1. [blank_start]Precambrian[blank_end] 2. [blank_start]Paleozoic[blank_end] 3. [blank_start]Mesozoic[blank_end] 4. [blank_start]Cenozoic[blank_end]