Layers
Plates
Shake em up
Blow your top
High on top
100
Made mostly of basalt.
What is the crust.
100
Total number is 11.
What are Earth's major plates.
100
Cracks in the Earth.
What are faults.
100
Ancient Roman god of fire.
Who is Vulcan.
100
Earth's highest surfaces.
What are mountains.
200
Earth's only liquid layer.
What is the outer core.
200
Giant plates of rock slowly move across Earth's surface.
What is plate tectonics
200
Violent shaking of the Earth's crust.
What is an earthquake.
200
Melted rock below the surface.
What is magma.
200
When 2 plates collide and force layers of rock together they form these.
What are fold mountains.
300
The crust and mantle combine to form this.
What is the lithosphere.
300
Three types of plate boundaries.
What is Converging,Diverging,Sliding boundaries.
300
Main focus/point of an earthquake.
What is an epicenter.
300
Are formed when magma pushes up on Earth's crust but does not break through.
What is Dome mountains.
400
Core is made up of 2 regions.
What is the inner and outer core.
400
Never stop moving and changing
What are Earth's plates.
400
Waves of energy sent through the Earth's crust when plates move suddenly.
What are seismic waves.
400
Mnay earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur here.
What is the ring of fire in the Pacific Ocean
400
Catskills,Black Hills and Sierra Nevada
What are 3 mountains formed by erosion.
500
Lays just below the crust.
What is the mantle
500
There are 2 kinds of plates.
What are Continental and Oceanic plates.
500
What Earthquakes are measured with.
What is a Richter scale.
500
3 classifications of volcanoes.
What are shield,cindercone, composite volcanoes.
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