Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Vocabulary
Plate Tectonics
Layers of the Earth
100
name of a volcano that is not active
What is dormant
100
point on Earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake
What is epicenter
100
An instrument used to measure earthquake waves
What is a seismograph
100
Fault that runs through California
What is the San Andreas fault
100
layer that we can touch
What is crust
200
name of the volcano that erupted in Washington in 1980
What is Mt. Saint Helens
200
waves sent through Earth's crust during earthquakes
What is seismic waves
200
A mountain that forms when red-hot melted rock flows through a crack on the Earth's surface
What is a volcano
200
Landforms that are made from convergent plate boundaries
What is mountains/volcanoes
200
made up of solid nickel and iron
What is the inner core
300
What formed the Hawaiian Islands?
What is volcanoes
300
Name of the scientist who studies earthquakes
What is seismologist
300
Continent sized slabs made up of the crust and upper mantle
What is plates
300
name of the zone where a lot of volcanic and seismic activity takes place
What is the Ring of Fire
300
Layer that is made of solid rock and gradually goes to molten rock
What is mantle
400
difference in magma and lava
What is Magma-inside Earth Lava-outside Earth
400
Name of the machine used to measure the earthquake's energy
What is seismograph
400
a break in the crust along which the rock moves
What is a fault
400
Theory that says that once all the continents were one super-continent
What is continental drift
400
layer that is the hottest
What is inner core
500
Simple volcano with a bowl shaped center at the summit and steep sides. They usually erupt from a single oepning.
What is Cinder Volcano
500
Earthquakes are most likely near
What is faults
500
Melted rock that has reached Earth's surface
What is lava
500
The name for a large divergent plate that pushes North America and Europe an inch away from each other every year
What is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
500
This is what the outer core made of
What is liquid iron and nickel
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