Vocabulary
High Temperatures
Mountains
Earthquakes/ volcanoes
Miscellaneous
100
Earth's thickest layer
What is mantle?
100
Sprew hot water from beneath the surface
What are geyers?
100
Plates collide and rocks compress and break.
What is what happens to rocks along converging boundaries?
100
where most volcanoes and earthquakes occur
What is along plate boundaries?
100
Marine fossils Found in polar regions
What is support of the theory of plate tectonics?
200
Theory that describes how large slabs of the lithosphere move.
What is plate tectonics?
200
what happens to rock below the Earth's surface
What is melt?
200
largest mountain forms where two plates collide and force layers of rocks into....
What is fold mounains?
200
They move more slowly than body waves
What is surface waves?
200
the point on the surface directly above the focus
What is epicenter?
300
Earthquakes and volcanoes are often found along these cracks in the Earth's crust.
What is faults?
300
how do scientists encounter the higher tempertures below the Earth's surface
What is drill?
300
The blocks may move along one or more faults to create mountains...
What is fault block mountains?
300
Intense vibrations felt throughout Earth's crust during an earthquake
What is seismic waves?
300
has sensors that detect and measure vibrations of Earth's crust
What is seismograph?
400
Built-up energy is released along a fault during this type of disaster.
What is earthquakes?
400
lava, rock debris, and ashes from volcanoes
What is a thing scientist study to learn about what is below the Earth's Surface?
400
Magma rose to the surface but could not break through the crust
What is dome mountains?
400
Outlines Earth's subduction zones
What is "ring of Fire"?
400
Two plates move towards each other. One plate may move under the other
What is converging boundaries?
500
melted rock found beneath Earth's surface
What is magma?
500
design lab experiments to expose surface rock to intense heat and pressure
What is a thing scientists study to learn about what is below the Earth's Surface?
500
magma rises up in the gap between two plates
What is Volcanic mountains?
500
waves that cause the most damage
What is surface waves?
500
Name two types of plates
What is oceanic plates and continental plates?
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