Earth's Layers
Plate Boundaries
Earthquakes/volcanoes
Rock Cycle
Misc
100
This layer is made of mostly the metals iron and nickel.
What is the core
100
New crust forms at __________ plate boundaries.
What is divergent
100
This is used to measure the strength of an earthquake.
What is a seismograph
100
What type of rock is formed when molten rock cools and hardens.
What is igneous rock
100
What is an example of mechanical weathering
What is plant roots breaking rocks
200
This is the Earth's thickest layer.
What is the mantle
200
_______ plate boundaries collide into one another.
What is convergent
200
Name the three types of volcanoes.
What are stratovolcano, shield volcano and cinder cone.
200
_______ rocks form when heat ad pressure inside Earth change one kind of rock into another kind.
What is metamorphic
200
Name 2 types of igneous rocks
What are basalt and pumice
300
The earth's _________ is made up of huge moving sections called plates.
What is lithosphere
300
True or false, there are 4 types of faults.
What is true, strike-slip, reverse, normal and folded.
300
Earthquakes are vibration of the ground produced when _________
What is rock movements along faults release energy
300
Compacting and cementing make this kind of rock.
What is sedimentary
300
Name 2 examples of sedimentary rocks
What are sandstone and shale
400
Name the two types of crust.
What is ocean and continental
400
The San Andreas Fault is a __________ fault, where blocks of rock scrape past each other.
What is strike-slip
400
This is where most of the world's volcanoes can be found
What is the Ring of Fire
400
What is another name for volcanic glass.
What is obsidian
400
Name 2 examples of metamorphic rocks
What are marble and slate
500
Name the layers of the Earth in order.
What is the crust, mantle, outer core and inner core.
500
There are this many plates covering the Earth.
What is 19 plates
500
Name the three types of seismic waves from an earthquake.
What is primary waves, secondary waves and surface waves.
500
Name the three types of rocks in the rock cycle.
What are metamorphic, sedimentary and igneous
500
This was lacking in Alfred Wegener's theory of continental drift.
What is an explanation of how or why the continents moved.
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