Layer upon Layer
Eat Your Crust
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Coming Right Up
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The thinnest of Earth's layers
What is the crust?
100
The earth's crust is made of these, which fit together like puzzle pieces and move centimeters each year.
What are tectonic plates?
100
The fastest body wave.
What is a P-wave?
100
Where cells make their energy.
What are the mitochodria?
100
This Cascadian volcano erupted majorly in 1980.
What is Mt. St. Helens?
200
This liquid layer is made of super-hot liquid metals like iron and nickel.
What is the outer core?
200
These are the two types of crustal plates.
What are oceanic plates and continental plates?
200
S-waves, or secondary waves, move in this motion.
What is side to side?
200
The mouth leads to the trachea, and the trachea leads to this.
What is bronchi?
200
This volcanic rock is full of holes caused by gas bubbles.
What is pumice?
300
This super-dense, super-hot solid layer spins a little faster than the rest of the earth.
What is core?
300
At this type of boundary, plates move toward one another.
What is convergent?
300
These waves move along the top of the crust only.
What are surface waves?
300
This spiraling storm forms when warm, moist air collides with cool, dry air over land.
What is a tornado?
300
This area of the world is home to many, many volcanoes due to subduction zones.
What is the Ring of Fire?
400
This happens in the mantle, moving the plates that "float" on top of the mantle.
What is convection?
400
This process occurring at this divergent boundary creates new rock on the ocean's floor.
What is seafloor spreading?
400
DAILY DOUBLE: the root "seis" refers to this.
What is earthquake or movement of the earth?
400
This form of heat transfer happens through surface to surface contact.
What is conduction?
400
Volcanic rock can be classified as this type of rock.
What is igneous?
500
This is the upper part of the mantle that is solid and connects to the lithosphere.
What is the asthenosphere?
500
A region where one plate dives under another plate at a convergent boundary and remelts, often creating volcanoes.
What is a subduction zone?
500
P-waves and S-waves radiate from this point.
What is the earthquake's "focus"?
500
Your immune system manufactures these to recognize and fight invading viruses.
What are antibodies?
500
Volcanic eruptions can affect global weather patterns due to this.
What is ash in the atmosphere?
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