Layers of the Earth
Surface Formation
Magnetic Field
Trivia
Vocab
100
The rocky outer layer of the earth.
What is the crust?
100
A mountain that spews lava.
What is a volcano?
100
What causes Earth's magnetic field.
What is a convection current?
100
The amount of layers in the earth.
What is four?
100
This causes an earthquake to occur.
Collision of tectonic plates.
200
Molten rock below the crust.
What is the mantle?
200
When two tectonic plates collide, the earth rises up and this forms.
What is a mountain?
200
When one tectonic plate slides below the other.
What is subduction?
200
When lava comes out of a volcano, it is called...
What is eruption?
300
What is at the center of the earth.
What is the inner core?
300
This causes a chain of volcanic eruptions.
What is a magma plume?
300
What happens when you add pressure to the mantle.
What is a volcanic eruption?
300
Earth's natural barrier against the Sun's radiation.
What is the magnetic field?
400
What the core is mostly composed of.
What is iron and nickel?
400
When two tectonic plates slide by each other instead of colliding.
What is a transform fault?
400
This is produced when mountains crumble.
What is sediment?
400
The crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core.
What are layers?
500
Lava inside earth is called this.
What is magma?
500
What earth's surface is made of.
What is cooled lava/rock?
500
A current in the earth's mantle.
What is a convection current?
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