CRUSTY
MANTLE & CORE
SHIFTING AND ERUPTING
DEFINING MOMENTS
GRAB BAG
100
The earth's crust is made up of these substances.
What are rock, soil, sediment?
100
Rock that behaves like something between a liquid and a solid.
What is plastic rock?
100
When earthquakes occur they emit these vibrations.
What are seismic waves?
100
Earth's outermost layer of rock.
What is crust?
100
The five distinct sections of the earth.
What are Atmosphere, Hydrosphere, Crust, Mantle & Core?
200
Small, solid fragments of rock and other materials that are carried and deposited by wind, water or ice. Examples would be sand, mud or gravel.
What is sediment?
200
The upper part of the mantle and the crust above it.
What is lithosphere?
200
Rock that forms from molten rock.
What is igneous rock?
200
Rock formed when chemical reactions cement sediments together, hardening them.
What is sedimentary rock?
200
The only section of the earth that we can directly observe.
What is crust?
300
Types of Rock that form the earth's crust.
What are sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rock?
300
The scientist who concluded that the earth was not the same throughout its interior.
What is Mohorovicic?
300
Device used to measure and analyze the earths vibrations.
What is seismographs?
300
This boundary signals the beginning of the earth's core.
What is Gutenberg discontinuity?
300
This layer of the earth is directly under the crust.
What is mantle?
400
Igneous or sedimentary rock that has been changed into a new kind of rock as a result of great pressure and temperature.
What is metamorphic rock?
400
The boundary between the earth's crust and the beginning of the earth's mantle.
What is Mohorovicic Discontinuity (Moho)?
400
DAILY DOUBLE The four types of interactions that can occur between the earth's plates
What are plate separations, plate subduction, plate collision, and plate sliding?
400
The boundary between the inner and outer core.
What is Lehmann Discontinuity?
400
The two theories that try to explain where the electrical current in the earth's core originates.
What are dynamo & rapid-decay theories?
500
The substance that forms when rocks that have gotten hot enough, under the right conditions, melt, forming liquid rock.
What is magma?
500
The portion of the mantle just below the lithosphere.
What is asthenosphere?
500
Scientist speculate that all continents were once part of this giant super continent.
What is Pangaea?
500
The phenomenon by which a liquid turns into a solid due to high pressure.
What is pressure freezing?
500
The boundary between two sections of rock that can move relative to one another.
What is a fault?
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