Vocabulary
Shaking of the ground from energy release in the crust.
What is a landslide?
What is a divergent boundary?
Type of volcano known for its gentle slopes. It is mostly made of lava.
What is a shield volcano?
The thickest layer of the Earth.
What is the mantle?
Process in which soil, sand, and sediment are formed.
Soil moving downhill slowly due to gravity.
What is creep?
The type of boundary where an oceanic plate collides with a continental plate.
What is a convergent boundary?
The combination of the other two types of volcano. Made of ash and lava.
What is a composite volcano?
The layer of Earth that we live on.
What is the crust?
Remains or traces of past life found in the crust.
What are fossils?
What is a mudslide?
The type of boundary that has lateral movement.
What is a transform boundary?
Type of volcano that is tall and narrow with steep slopes. It is mostly made of ash.
What is a cinder cone volcano?
A physical feature on the Earth's surface.
What is a landform?
"Supercontinent" on Earth millions of years ago.
What is a sinkhole?
The type of boundary that is commonly linked to earthquakes.
What is a transform boundary?
What lava is called before it reaches Earth's surface.
What is magma?
What are Gondwana and Laurasia?
Theory of how continents move over Earth's surface.
What is continental drift?
The type of rock commonly associated with sinkholes.
What is limestone?
The type of boundary that formed the Ring of Fire in the Pacific Ocean.
What is a convergent boundary?
The name of the town in Italy that was covered in ash when Mount Vesuvius erupted.
What is Pompeii?
The metal that makes up Earth's core.
What is iron?