Earth's Layers
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Mountains
Deposition, Erosion, Weathering
100
The surface layer of Earth
What is the crust
100
Where the greatest damage is caused.
What is the epicenter
100
Melted or molten rock beneath Earth's surface
What is magma
100
The rock layers above the fault moves down
What is a normal fault
100
What process happens by water, temperature, and wind?
What is weathering
200
Solid and made up of iron and nickel.
What is the inner core
200
The place within the crust where energy is released during an earthquake
What is the focus
200
Can produce a chain of volcanoes
What is a hot spot
200
The rock layers above the fault moves up
What is a reverse fault
200
What happens when settlement stops and settles?
What is deposititon
300
Made up of liquid iron
What is the outer core
300
Break in the Earth's crust
What is a fault
300
A volcano made up of alternating layers of lava and ash
What is a composite volcano
300
Magma builds up along plate boundaries causes
What is a ridge
300
What happens when erosion causes a cave to form underground?
What is sinkhole
400
Most of this layer is solid rock, but some of it is soft
What is the mantle
400
Causes weak earthquakes
Plates moving away from one another
400
Volcanoes made up of rock, ash, and other solid materials from volcanic eruptions. They are tall and narrow with steep slopes
What is a cinder cone volcanoes
400
When plates that move apart leave gaps between them, __________ moves in to fill the gaps.
What is mantle rock
400
What process happens by wind, water, gravity, and wind?
What is erosion
500
Chunks of crust and upper mantle rock that fit together like puzzle pieces.
What is the plates
500
Causes strong earthquakes
Plates moving towards and alongside one another
500
These are broad volcanoes with gentle slopes.
What is a Shield Volcano
500
The tallest landforms on Earth
What is mountains
500
What is a new land that is formed by sediment depositing at a river's mouth?
What is a delta
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