Core, Mantle & Crust
Plate Movement
Plate Tectonics
Forces That Make and Change Landforms
Volcanoes & Earthquakes
100
Core
What is the innermost layer or center of the Earth
100
Continental Crust
What is the thick section of the Earth's crust below the continents?
100
Boundary
What is the edge of a tectonic plate where it meets other plates?
100
Hot Spot
What is a place in the Earth's crust above a column of rising magma?
100
Erupt
What is when magma forcefully flows up and out of a volcano?
200
Crust
What is the outermost layer or surface of the Earth
200
Continental Drift
What is the name of Alfred Wegener's theory?
200
Convection Current
What is the heating and cooling cycle of magma in the mantle's asthenosphere?
200
Fault
What is a large crack in the Earth's crust?
200
Earthquake
What is the shaking of rock in the Earth's crust?
300
Mantle
What is the layer of iron-rich minerals surrounding the core
300
Pangaea
What is a Greek word meaning "all earth" or "all land"; a large supercontinent?
300
Convergent Boundary
What is a boundary that forms when two tectonic plates collide?
300
Mountain
What is a landform that can be created when tectonic plates collide or when one plate is subducted below another?
300
Ash
What is small particles of shattered rock and magma that escape from a volcano when it erupts?
400
Magma
What is minerals in the form of hot liquid rock; found in the mantle
400
Rift
What is the open space created after two plates move apart?
400
Transform Boundary
What is a boundary that forms when two tectonic plates slide past one another in opposite directions?
400
Mid-Ocean Ridge
What is the longest mountain range in the world? it is found on the ocean floor.
400
Seismologist
What is a scientist who studies earthquakes?
500
asthenosphere and lithosphere
What is the name for the who sections of the mantle?
500
Seafloor Spreading
What is the process of forming new oceanic crusts?
500
Divergent Boundary
What is a boundary that forms when two tectonic plates separate?
500
Strike-Slip Fault
What is a fault that forms when layers of rock slide past each other in opposite directions?
500
Richter Scale
What is the scale that Charles Richter developed to measure and gauge an earthquake's strength?
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