Earth
Fault
Volcano
Vocabulary
University High School
100
The three layers of the Earth discussed in class
What is the crust, mantle, and core?
100
The theory called that Earth's major landmasses move
What is continental drift?
100
The opening through which magma reaches Earth's surrface
What is a vent?
100
The continents used to be joined as a single large landmass
What is pangea?
100
The last day of school
What is June 12
200
The part of the crust that moves
What is a plate?
200
The theory that Earth's crust is made up of large sections that move
What is tectonics?
200
Small volcano with steep sides and explosive eruptions of ash and rocks
What is a cinder cone?
200
The continents used to be joined as a single large landmass
What is pangea?
200
The last day of school for seniors
What is June 5
300
The name of the mountain chain on the ocean floor
What is a midoceanic ridge?
300
A break in the Earth's crust
What is a fault?
300
A type of volcano that has a wide crater that develops from layers of lava
What is a shield volcano?
300
The type of current that is the circular movement of liquid and gas as it heats
What is a convection current?
300
The nurse
What is Jeanne Dowling
400
The bending of rock layers that are squeezed together
What is folding?
400
Type of fault where the two sides move horizontally
What is a strike slip fault?
400
Volcanoes formed from eruptions of ash and rock followed by quiet lava flows
What is composite volcanoes?
400
The deep crack in the midoceanic ridge
What is a rift?
400
The deputy on campus
What is deputy duncan?
500
The type of fault where the two sides collide
What is a reverse fault?
500
The type of fall that pulls the sides apart
What is a normal fault?
500
A mountain that develops where magma erupts onto Earth's surface
What is a volcano?
500
When the ocean floor spreads apart as new crust formed at the midoceanic ridge is
What is seafloor spreading?
500
The principal at UHIGH
What is Mr. Frandsen?
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