The layer of the earth that we live on and can walk on.
What is crust?
100
They are the openings in the Earth’s surface. When they are active they can let ash, gas and hot magma escape in sometimes violent and spectacular eruptions.
What are volcanoes?
100
A violent rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground.
What is a tornado?
100
It is something that plants need that is not sunlight.
What is rain?
100
It contains all of the nutrients needed for plants to survive.
What is soil?
200
The layer of the Earth that is under the crust.
What is the Mantle
200
Hot liquid rock under the Earth's surface.
What is Magma?
200
The types of air that are needed to create a tornado.
What are warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico and cool, dry air from Canada?
200
Water can fall from the sky in these four forms.
What is rain, sleet, snow and hail?
200
Dirt comes from it and soil comes from dirt.
What are rocks?
300
This layer is under the mantle.
What is the Outer Core?
300
Magma after it comes out of a volcano.
What is lava?
300
Water droplets that are created when they are caught in the updraft of a thunderstorm. These water droplets are lifted higher and higher into the sky until they freeze into ice.
What is hail?
300
A large group of tiny water droplets that we can see in the air.
What is a cloud?
300
These rocks are formed when hot lava drips down the sides of volcanoes and then cools.
What are Igneous Rocks?
400
The center of the Earth.
What is the Inner Core?
400
An area around the Pacific Ocean where over 75% of the volcanoes on Earth are found.
What is the Ring of Fire?
400
Huge storms that gather heat and energy through contact with warm ocean waters.
What are hurricanes?
400
The sound caused by lightning.
What is thunder?
400
These rocks have layers.
What are Sedimentary rocks?
500
The layers of the Earth.
What is the Inner Core, the Outer Core, the Mantle and the Crust?
500
A unique volcanic rock that can float in water.
What is Pumice?
500
The center of the hurricane and the part that the hurricane rotates around.
What is the eye?
500
It is the flow of gases, here on Earth it refers to the movement of air.
What is wind?
500
These are rocks that were once sand and have been crushed under immense heat and pressure.