Vocab
Plates
Magnetic Field
Inside of Earth
Earth's Surface Creations
100
What is the study of earth's physical structure?
Geology
100
What happens when two plates collide and shake violently?
Earthquakes
100
What is the ting that shields us from the sun's radiation?
Magnetic Field
100
What is the solid layer inside of the earth that is a solid and is made of iron and nickel?
Inner Core
100
What is the outer layer of the earth made of rock?
Crust
200
What is the timeline that organizes earth's history such as an eon, era, period, ore, and epoch?
Geologic Time
200
What do you call the action when two plates collide and 1 goes under the other?
Subduction
200
Where are convection currents inside of earth?
Mantle
200
What is the layer of earth that is a liquid made out of iron and nickel?
Outer Core
200
What is the ting that is made when magma rises into the earth and emits lava?
Volcanoes
300
What is a period of time marked by important events of the earth?
Era
300
What do you call a rigid, but moving, pice of the Earth's surface that carries continents?
Lithospheric Plates
300
What causes the earth to have a magnetic field inside of the mantle?
Convection Currents
300
What is magma emanating from volcanoes and other vents?
Lava Plumes
300
What do you call the action when a volcanoe explodes or emits lava?
Eruption
400
What is a period of time chosen at a particular era?
Epoch
400
What do you call a thing that is formed when plates are stretched out and cracked?
Faults
400
What is melted rock that flows from the core into the mantle and sometimes reaching the crust causing volcanoes?
Magma
400
What are tings that pop out of the land when two plates collide and both rise up?
Mountain
500
What is the type of rock that forms from the cooling of molten rock below the surface?
Igneous Rock
500
What is a ting that divides up earth's crust in different parts?
Rifts
500
What is another word for sea bed?
Ocean Floors
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