Earth's Layers
Earth's Layers-continued
Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
100
When pressure and steam and hot water erupt to the surface in a sudden explosion.
What are geysers?
100
Melted rock below Earth's surface: called lava at the surface.
What is the magma?
100
The Rocky Mountains are what type of mountains?
What are fold mountains?
100
cracks in Earth's crust
What is a fault?
100
the hot, molten rock that is found underground
What is magma?
200

True of False: Can we travel to the center of the Earth?

What is False?
200
The part of the core that is solid and probably made up of iron and nickel
What is the inner core?
200
The remains or traces of plant or animal that lived long ago.
What are fossils?
200
a violent shaking of Earth's crust
What is an earthquake?
200
the magma that is found on the surface of the Earth
What is lava?
300
The uppermost layer of our Earth.
What is the crust?
300
The 2 regions of the core
What is the inner core and the outer core?
300
Mountains that form when magma pushes up on Earth's crust but does not break through?
What are Dome mountians?
300
the underground point where the shaking is most violent
What is the focus?
300
Where would you be mostly to observe a volcano?
What is the rim of the Pacific Ocean?
400
The layer just below Earth's crust
What is the mantle?
400
The only layer that is in a liquid state - made mostly of molten iron and nickel
What is the outer core?
400
Mountains that form along fault lines where blocks of rock fall, are thrust up, or slide.
What are fault-block mountains?
400
the point on the surface directly above the focus in an earthquake
What is the epicenter?
400
Volcanoes are also known as....
What is mountains of fire?
500
The solid upper mantle and crust.
What is the lithosphere?
500
The 4 layers of our Earth
What is the crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core?
500
Where 2 plates move away from each other
What are diverging boundaries?
500
the shock waves of energy that are measured to tell us how strong an earthquake is
What are seismic waves?
500
Roman God of fire that the word volcano comes from?
What is the Vulcan?
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