Earth's layers
Earth's Moving Crust
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Miscellaenous
100
What is the inner layer called?
Core
100
What is the gradual movement of contents across the Earth's surface?  
Continental drift 
100
What is the rock below fault called?
Foot wall
100
What is the top of volcanoes called?
The Vent
100
What is the Earth's lithosphere?
The rigid outer part of the Earth
200
Why does ocean crust sink below continental crust?
Because of its higher density (2.7 cubics centimeter)
200
How many plate tectonics is the Earth's lithosphere broken into?


7 plate tectonics
200
Which type of wave travels parallel to the direction of motion?
Primary Wave(P-wave) 
200
Which type of volcano erupts runny lava?
Sheild volcanoes
200
Which core is very middle inside the Earth, Inner core or Outer core?
Inner core 
300
What are 3 things continental crust is made out of? 
Granite, sedimentary, and metamorphic
300
What are the 3 types of plate boundaries?
Divergent, Convergent, and Transformation
300
What are the three types of earthquake waves?
Primary Wave(P-wave), Secondary Wave(S-wave), Surf wave(L-wave)


300
What are the three types of volcanoes?
Cinder Cone, Composite, and Sheild 
300
What are the 3 layers called under the crust?
Mantle, Inner core, Outer core
400

Explain how Earth has a liquid core.

The intense pressure and heat keeps the outer core liquid.

400
Why do plates move?
The action of convection current that is created by the heating and cooling of the magma in the mantle.
400
What are 3 types of faults?
Normal fault, Reverse fault, and Strike-slip fault 
400
What 2 effects do volcanoes have on the Earth's surface?


Ash, Intense heat, or the lava
400
What did scientists that were Christians believe? 
That violent events during the flood and geological changes since the flood might explain how Earth's plates 
500
Who introduced an idea called uniformitarianism? 
James Hutton 
500
Who discovered continental drift?
Alfred Wegener in 1915
500
What force pulls on the rubbing surfaces of each block of clay? 
tension force
500
What are shield volcanoes fueled by?  
Magma
500
Which fault is the act of moving side to side and not up and down?
Strike-slip
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