Layers of Earth
Heat moves in the mantle through a process of heating and cooling known as
What is convection?
Earthquakes are caused by
What are faults?
What is an opening in the Earth's crust through which lava, volcanic ash, and gases escape
What is a volcano?
The area where 2 plates move past each other horizontally.
What is a transform boundary?
The term that refers to the process that breaks rocks into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
The majority of the Earth's mass is located in the
What is the core?
This is the location where an earthquakes begins
What is the focus?
Volcanos are usually located
What is at the edges of tectonic plates?
Area where 2 plates pull apart.
What is a divergent boundary?
The term that refers to the process that transports sediment, soil, and rock to another location.
What is erosion?
Earth's core is a solid due to
What is high pressure?
The amount of energy released during an earthquake is known as
What is magnitude?
Lava that has not reached the surface is called
What is magma?
Rigid blocks of Earth's crust and upper mantle.
What is the lithosphere?
The term for the process that deposits sediment, soil, and rock onto land.
What is deposition?
The crust and the upper mantle together form the
What is the lithosphere?
Most earthquakes occur along
What are plate bounderies?
True or false: A dormant volcano will never erupt.
What is false?
Region where a plate descends beneath another plate.
What is subduction zone?
Burrowing bees chew through sandstone rock to make a home is an example of
What is weathering?
The layer of the Earth responsible for generating the magnetic field is the
What is the outer core?
This is the point on the Earth's surface directly above the focus is know as the
What is the epicenter?
A type of volcano that is built of alternating layers of lava, ash, and rock.
What is composite volcano?
a theory that explains changes in Earth's crust by external forces.
What is plate tectonics?
Acid rain hits a statue. Over time, holes are formed in the statue. This is an example of
What is chemical weathering?