Earth's Structure
Volcanoes/Earthquakes
Mountains/Earthquakes
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100
This part of earth consists of liquid metals.
What is the core?
100
Built-up energy is released along a fault during this.
What is an earthquake?
100
Best describes the surface waves produced by an earthquake.
What is they move more slowly than body waves?
100
Inner core
What is consists of liquid metals?
100
The theory that describes how large slabs of the lithosphere move.
What is plate tectonics?
200
Rigid outermost shell.
What is the lithosphere?
200
Intense vibrations felt throughout Earth's crust during an earthquake are called this.
What is seismic waves?
200
The folding of layers of earths upper surface make these kinds of mountains.
What are fold mountains?
200
Plate tectonics
What is the theory that describes how large slabs of the lithosphere move?
200
This is how fossils provide evidence to support the theory of plate tectonics.
What is fossils of tropical plants and animals may be found in polar regions; fossils of marine animate may be found in mountainous regions?
300
The thickest of earth's layers.
What is the mantle?
300
Melted rock found beneath Earth's surface.
What is magma?
300
Oceanic plates and continental plates converge and make these type of mountains.
What are fault-block mountains?
300
Seismic Waves
What is intense vibrations felt throughout Earth's crust during an earthquake?
300
This is a description of the damage an earthquake can cause to a region. Compare that to the danger a volcano can do to the environment.
What is earthquakes can level buildings, cause landslides, and generate huge ocean waves. Volcanoes can cover large areas with lava and volcanic ash and rocks, destroy forests, and emit dangerous gases into the atmosphere.
400
Evidence of high temperatures below Earth's surface.
What are geysers spew hot water from beneath the surface?
400
Both earthquakes and volcanoes often occur along ______, which are cracks in Earth's crust.
What is faults?
400
These kind of mountain form when hot magma rises and then cools.
What are dome mountains?
400
Magma
What is melted rock found beneath Earth's surface?
400
These are three ways scientists can learn more about what goes on beneath Earth's surface.
What is Scientists can drill holes; study lava, rock debris and ashes from volcanoes; they can monitor the activity of natural geysers.
500
Besides plate movement, this is a process that can alter the structure of Earth's mantle.
What is weathering can create plateaus?
500
Where most of Earth's volcanoes and earthquakes occur.
What are the plate boundaries?
500
This happens to rock along converging boundaries.
What is plates collide and rocks compress and break and one plate may move below the other plate?
500
Faults
What are cracks in Earth's crust?
500
An increase in distance between continents indicates this.
What is mantle rising to the surface along the boundary and causing diverging boundaries?
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