Earth Layers
Volcanoes
Plate Tectonics
Faults/Stresses
100
The thickest layer of the earth
What is the mantle?
100
The type of volcano that is quiet and has MAFIC lava
What is a shield volcano?
100
The man who discovered plate tectonics
Who is Alfred Wegener
100
Causes strike-slip faults.
What is shearing
200
The hottest layer of the earth
What is the inner core?
200
The type of volcano that is explosive and has FELSIC lava
What is a cinder cone volcano?
200
The super content before people
What is Pangea
200
Causes reverse faults
What is compression?
300
The liquid layer of our earth
What is the outer core
300
The type of volcano that is BOTH explosive and quiet and has BOTH MAFIC and FELSIC lava
What is a composite volcano?
300
Divergent, convergent, transform
What are plate boundaries?
300
Causes normal faults
What is tension
400
The upper most layer of our earth
What is the crust?
400
Lava that is runny and fast
What is MAFIC lava
400
The currents that move the plates
What are convection currents?
500
The layer with three parts
What is the mantle?
500
Lava that is thick and gooey
What is FELSIC lava?
500
The structures built by plate boundaries
What are landforms?
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