Vocabulary
Earth's Layers
Temperatures Inside Earth
Mountains
Earthquakes and volcanoes
100
Shock waves of energy
What is seismic waves?
100
thickest layer of Earth's layers
What is mantle?
100
natural resource that spew hot water from inside earth showing high temperatures below surface
What is geysers?
100
plates collide and rocks compress and break ; one plate may move below the other plate
What is converging boundaries?
100
where most of Earth's volcanoes and earthquakes occur
What is plate boundaries?
200
a violent shaking of Earth's crust?
What is earthquake?
200
solid upper mantle and crust combine to form rigid shell
What is lithosphere?
200
what do scientist encounter when they drill into earth
What is high temperatures ?
200
Fossils of tropical plants found in polar regions; fossils of marine animals found in mountain regions
What is how fossils provide evidence to support the theory of plate tectonics?
200
level buildings, cause landslides, and generate huge waves
What is damage from earthquake?
300
Cracks in the Earth's crust along which movement takes place
What is faults?
300
solid center of the Earth
What is inner core?
300
where we find melted rock
What is under the Earth's surface?
300
may form wherever faulting occurs
What is fault-block mountain?
300
over large area with lava, ash and rocks; destroy forest, emit gas
What is damage from a volcano?
400
The idea of giant plates of rock moving slowly across Earth's surface
What is plate tectonics?
400
Earth's only liquid layer
What is outer core?
400
setting up seismographs can...
What is learning about what is going on under the earth's surface?
400
push up under earth's surface but doesn't break through the crust
What is dome mountain?
400
Earth's subduction zones outline this area
What is "Ring of Fire"?
500
malted rock below Earth's surface
What is magma?
500
Earth's thinnest layer
What is crust?
500
lave, rock debris, and ashes for volcanoes
What is things we can study to learn what is going on under the Earth's surface?
500
form where an oceanic plate collide with continental plate
What is fold mountain?
500
Travel more slowly than body waves
What is surface waves?
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