The Earth & Crust
Misc.
Plates in Motion
Earthquakes
Ring of Fire
100
This part of the earth is made of solid rock.
What is the crust?
100
This is hot, flowing rock below Earth's surface.
What is Magma?
100
This is a huge land mass that existed about 200 million years ago.
What is Pangea?
100
This is a rapid back-and-forth movement.
What is a vibration?
100
This is a large circular area that is lined by active volcanoes and earthquakes.
What is the Ring of Fire?
200
This item may be used in soft or hard form as a model of the Earth.
What is an egg?
200
What force changes Earth's surface most slowly?
What is erosion?
200
The Earth's plates are always moving because of this.
What are convection currents?
200
This area is NOT a common location for earthquakes.
What are the polar regions?
200
The opening in Earth's crust through which melted rock reaches the surface.
What is a volcano?
300
This is one of seven large land masses on Earth.
What is a continent?
300
Mountains, valleys, and hills are examples of this.
What is a landform?
300
This causes new crust to form where magma rises at mid-ocean ridges.
What is ocean-floor spreading?
300
This is a crack in Earth's crust.
What is a fault?
300
This is an area where you are most likely to find a volcano or earthquake activity anywhere on Earth.
What is where two plates meet?
400
This is one of the sheets of crust and upper mantle that cover Earth's surface.
What is plate?
400
This is the breaking down of rocks into smaller particles by wind, waves, water, temperature changes, and plants.
What is weathering?
400
This occurs when two plates collide and one slides under the other.
What is subduction?
400
This is the instrument for measuring the strength of an earthquake.
What is a seismograph?
400
This is where the Ring of Fire is located.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
500
This is the list of the parts of the Earth from the very center outward.
What is the inner and outer cores, mantle, and crust?
500
This is a model that describes how rocks form and change over time.
What is the rock cycle?
500
This happens when two continental plates collide.
What is the making of mountains?
500
This is the place in Earth where the energy of an earthquake is first released.
What is the focus?
500
Many volcanoes along coastal areas are caused because of this process.
What is subduction?
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