Volcanos & Earthquakes
Earths Layers
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Plate Tectonics
100
Most volcanos and earthquakes happen on .......
What is Plate boundaries
100
What layer of the Earth is the innermost layer?
What is core.
100
what is the boundary between two plates that slide past each other.
What is transform boundary.
100
What is the theory that Earth's surface is broken into large,rigid pieces that move with respect to each other.
What is Plate tectonics.
100
What is the boundary where two plates collide called?
What is convergent.
200
What is the liquid rock that comes out of a volcano called?
What is Lava.
200
What is the name of the outside layer of the Earth?
What is Crust.
200
What is the crack or a fracture in Earth's lithosphere along which movement occurs
What is fault.
200
What is the boundary between two plates that moves away from each other?
What is Divergent boundary.
200
What is the boundary where two plates divide called?
What is divergent.
300
What is the liquid rock that is beneath the volcano called?
What is magma.
300
What is the middle of the layer called?
What is the mantle.
300
What is long, narrow mountains form by magma at divergent boundaries.
What is mid-ocean ridge.
300
What is the boundary between two plates that move toward each other?
What is convergent boundary.
300
What is the boundary where two plates slide past each other called?
What is transform.
400
What occurs when two tectonic plates slide past rocks
What is Earthquakes
400
In what layer does convection happen?
What is the mantle.
400
What is the magma that erupts onto Earth's surface.
What is lava.
400
What is the process that occurs when one tectonic plate moves under another tectonic plate
What is subduction.
400
On what layer of the Earth are plate tectonics located?
What is crust.
500
What other catastrophic event can occur after an earthquake.
What is tsunami
500
Which layer of the Earth has the most mass?
What is the core.
500
What is the molten rock stored beneath Earth's surface.
What is magma
500
What is the transfer of thermal energy by movement os particles from one part of the material to another
What is Convection.
500
what is it called when one plate is pushed underneath another?
What is subduction
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