Hazards
What is a break in Earth's crust called?
Fault
What layer of Earth is the outermost layer?
What sphere is in the crust and is broken into tectonic plates?
Lithosphere
What is a vent that connects magma to the surface of Earth?
Volcano
What heat transfer method involves NO Direct contact and has space between the objects?
Radiation
What are the vibrations called that occur due to rocks that are under stress suddenly break?
Seismic Waves
What are the two types of crust?
Continental and Oceanic
Daily Double: What sphere of Earth is the hot, soft rocky part of the mantle and consists of magma? HINT: is in both the crust and mantle
Asthenosphere
What type of volcano is a smaller volcano that includes almost no lava and are typically smaller volcanoes?
Cinder Cone
What are the remains of living things that have been preserved in rock?
Fossils
What are parts of the lithosphere that are broken and then float around the asthenosphere?
Tectonic Plates
What layer of Earth is the thickest and is a solid/liquid mix?
Mantle
What layer of Earth has the greatest density, highest temperature, and pressure?
Core (Inner core)
What are really large, long duration volcanoes?
Shield
What moves tectonic plates on Earth?
Convection currents in the mantle!
Daily Double: Scale used to quantify the amount of energy released by an earthquake?
Richter Scale
What layer of Earth is made up of metals (iron and nickel)?
Core (specifically inner core)
What type of currents exist in the mantle?
Convection
What type of volcanoes build up over time with alternating ash fallouts and lava flows, tendency to generate extremely violent events?
Composite
What types of resources can not be re-made and once they are gone, they are gone? Ex. fossil fuels
Nonrenewable Resources
What hazard occurs along fault lines or cracks in Earth's crust where tectonic plates meet?
Earthquake
Which type of crust is the most dense?
Oceanic Crust
What are rock layers that can tell us what rock layers are older than others?
Rock Strata
What city was destroyed by a composite volcano due to pyroclastic flow?
Pompeii
What is the name for the type of scientists that studies earthquakes?
Seismologists