Any place where gas, ash, or melted rock come out of the earth.
What is a Volcano?
100
A place within earth along a fault at which the first motion of an earthquake occurs
What is Focus?
100
A series of process in which a rock changes from one type to another
What is the rock cycle?
100
The smallest particle of an element
What is an atom
100
Located between the core and the crust
What is a mantle?
200
The name of magma that has reached earth's surface
What is lava
200
Directly above the focus on earth's surface.
What is an Epicenter?
200
The rising of regions of the crust to higher elevations
What is an uplist?
200
Pure substance that cannot be broken down into a simpler substance by ordinary chemical means
What is an element?
200
The outermost solid layer of Earth
What is the crust?
300
Molten rock
What is magma?
300
Ground movements that occur when blocks of rock in Earth move suddenly and release energy which is then released as seismic waves, causing the ground to shake and tremble
What is an earthquake?
300
The sinking of regions of the crust to lower elevations
What is Subsidence
300
A naturally occurring, usually inorganic solid that has definite crystalline structure and chemical composition
What is a mineral?
300
The outermost, rigid layer of Earth (made up of the crust and the rigid, upper part of the mantle)
What is the Lithosphere?
400
opening of a volcano/ towards the belly
What is a vent?
400
Where two or more tectonic plates meet
What is a tectonic plate boundary?
400
An area where a set of deep cracks form
What is a rift zone?
400
A substance that is made up of molecules of two or more elements
What is Compound?
400
A layer of weak or soft mantle that is made of rock that flows slowly
What is asthenosphere
500
A location where a column of extremely hot mantle rock rises through the asthenosphere
What is a hotspot
500
The return of rock to its original shape after elastic deformations
What is Elastic rebound
500
The process by which water, wind, ice, and changes in temperature break down rocks