Layers of the Earth
Tectonic Plates
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Misc.
100
This layer is made of rocks and soil. It includes the ocean floor.
What is the crust?
100
These plates move so that new crust is formed and usually happens on the ocean floor.
What is the plates move away from each other?
100
Melted rock that reaches the Earth's surface.
What is lava?
100
The underground point where an Earthquake begins.
What is focus?
100
This is one benefit of volcanoes.
What is add or increase land?
200
This layer is made of iron and nickel. I has a solid inner layer ad a liquid outer layer.
What is the core?
200
When plates slide past each other and stick.
What is earthquakes can occur?
200
An underground pool below a volcano that holds magma.
What is magma chamber?
200
The point on the surface of Earth that is right above the focus of an earthquake.
What is the epicenter?
200
This is one way volcanoes are harmful to people.
What is destroy their land and homes, or making it difficult to breath due to ash and lava?
300
This is the part of the core that is solid.
What is the inner core?
300
This movement causes mountains and volcanoes to form.
What is the plates move toward each other?
300
Rocky tube in a volcano through which magma rises to the surface.
What is vent?
300
Move out in all directions from the focus of an earthquake.
What are waves?
300
These are the three types of volcanoes.
What are composite, shield, and cinder cone?
400
This is the liquid core.
What is the outer core?
400
They were once known as Pangaea, but have since moved.
What are the Tectonic Plates.
400
The round basin part of a volcano.
What is a Crater?
400
A break in the Earth's crust along which rocks move.
What is a fault?
400
A place where volcanoes and earthquakes are most likely to occur.
What is The Ring of Fire?
500
This layer is made mostly of solid rock, with parts that flow like a thick liquid.
What is the mantle?
500
This action specifically causes earthquakes.
What is the plates stick, when sliding past each other?
500
Melted rock inside the Earth.
What is magma?
500
The scale from 1-9 that measures the intensity of an earthquake.
What is the Richter scale?
500
Earth's plates move about this much each year.
What is 1-2 inches? (1-10 cm.)
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