Layers of the Earth
A geomagnetic field that starts in the core of the earth and emanates out into space forming a magnetosphere is called what?
What is Earth's Magnetic Field
What is a Tornado?
What is a powerful rotating column of air that extends from a thunderstorm to the ground.
Explosive eruptions are dominated by what?
What is fragmental material.
This process involves two processes (physical and chemical) they often work together to break down rocks.
What is weathering.
What causes the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) in our atmosphere?
What is energetic particles from solar winds.
What is hot melted rock inside the earth that flows to the surface when a volcano erupts.
What is magma.
What type of eruptions are driven by steam explosions due to the superheating of groundwater by a magmatic source?
What is Phreatic Eruptions.
What is the geological process in which earthen materials are worn away and transported by natural forces such as wind or water?
What is erosion.
What layer of the earth is the thickest internal layer and is approximately 1802 miles thick.
What is the mantle.
What is a tectonic boundary where two plates are moving away from each other and new crust is forming from magma that rises to the Earth's surface between the two plates.
What is Divergent plates.
On your rock cycle worksheet how do go from a sedimentary rock to an igneous rock?
What is melting and crystallization.
Wind driven processes constantly transport dust, sand, and ash from one place to another. What is this called.
What is Aeolian processes.
The inner core is the most central layer of Earth's internal structure and is composed of what?
What is Solid iron and nickel.
What is an INSTRUMENT that responds to ground noises and shaking caused by quakes, volcanic eruptions, and explosions.
What is a Seismometer.
Magma that cools underground forms rocks; when it cools on the surface (as lava) rocks form.
What is intrusive and extrusive.
This can pick up everything in their path from tiny grains of sand to huge boulders and scrapes the ground below it, eroding both the ground and the rocks.
What are glaciers.
The hydrosphere is the component of earth that includes all of the what that exists on the planet's surface?
What is water.
What is 136 - 165 mph.
There are 4 main types of volcanoes, what are they?
What is Shield Volcanoes, Cinder Cone Volcanoes, Lava Domes, and Composite Volcanoes.
What is deposition?
The geological process in which earthen materials are deposited, or built up, on a landrom carried by wind, flowing water, the sea or ice.