Vocabulary
Layer by Layer
Continent Characteristics
Modge Podge
Review
100
Rock formed when chemical reactions cement sediments together, hardening them.
What is Sedimentary Rock
100
Region (a) on the board.
What is the crust?
100
Scientists have observed these in order to learn about earth's interior.
What are seismic waves?
100
We created this last week using a bolt, battery and wire.
What is a magnetic field?
100
Evaporation of water from plants.
What is transpiration?
200
Rock that behaves like something between a liquid and a solid.
What Plastic Rock?
200
Region (b)
What is the Asthenosphere?
200
Between these two layers, you can find the Moho.
What is the crust and the mantle?
200
A vibration of the earth that results either from volcanic activity or rock masses suddenly moving along a fault.
What is an earthquake?
200
A liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances.
What is a solvent?
300
The boundary between two sections of rock that can move relative to one another.
What is a Fault?
300
Region (c)
What is the Mantle?
300
This blocks the cosmic rays from the sun.
What is the earth's magnetic field?
300
The inner core of the earth is solid because of this.
What is pressure freezing?
300
The mass of air surrounding a planet.
What is atmosphere?
400
The point on the surface of the earth directly above the earthquake's focus.
What is the Epicenter?
400
Region (d)
What is the Outer Core?
400
This is believed to cause earth's magnetic field.
What is the electrical flow in the earth's core?
400
This is a "super continent" that some scientists believe existed long ago in the earth's past.
What is Pangea?
400
This gas makes up the majority of air we breathe.
What is Nitrogen?
500
This rock starts out as either igneous or sedimentary rock and is then transformed by high temperature and pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
500
Region (e)
What is the Inner Core?
500
A region of the earth that has a lot of volcanic activity likely has these two types of mountains.
What are volcanic and domed mountains?
500
These mountains need vertical motion along a fault in order to form.
What are fault-block mountains?
500
This invention converts carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide in a car's exhaust system.
What is a catalytic converter?
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