Vocabulary
Test Questions
Earthquakes
Earth
100
To explain how forces deep within earth can cause ocean floors to spread
What is plate tectonics
100
The movement of tectonic plates over millions of years causing continents to shift
What is continental drift
100
When two tectonic plates meet they form a fracture called what?
What is a fault?
100
A physical feature on earths surface is called what?
What is a land form?
200
hot melted rock
what is Magma
200
How are mountains formed?
what is when two tectonic plates collide and shift upward
200
What force build up earths crust? 
What is constructive forces
200
The layer of gases that surround earth is called what
what is atmosphere?
300
Deep cracks in the earths crust
Faults
300
What is the major difference between earthquakes and tsunamis?
what is earthquakes are land based and tsunamis are on the ocean floor
300
What forces are processes that that break down rocks and land forms and carry sediment away?
What are destructive forces?
300
Earth's water whether found on continents or in oceans, including the freshwater in lakes, rivers, and underground is called what
What is hydrosphere?
400
Remains or signs of once living things
What are fossils
400
why do earthquakes occur?
what is when slabs of rock in earths crust suddenly move
400
what is chemical weathering?
what is the composition of rock changes as minerals in the rock react with chemical compounds in rain water or moisture in the air?
400
A nearly melted layer of hot rock below earths crust is called what?
What is a Mantle
500
What is an opening in earths crust
What is a volcano
500
what causes volcano eruptions?
what is when one plate is pushed under another
500
what is the process called when smaller rocks can be broken down into even smaller rocks and sediment?
what is weathering?
500
The rocky surface that makes up the top of the lithosphere and includes the continents and the ocean floor is called?
What is the Crust?
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