Layers of the Earth
This is the top layer of the Earth where plants, animals, and people live.
What is the crust?
A volcano is a mountain that can do this.
What is erupt?
A tornado is a fast‑spinning column of this.
What is air?
A landslide happens when rocks and soil do this.
What is slide downhill?
Wildfires happen when this spreads quickly through forests.
What is fire?
This hot, thick layer is found under the crust.
What is the mantle?
A volcano is a mountain that can do this.
What is erupt?
Tornadoes often look like this shape.
What is a funnel?
Landslides often happen after this type of weather.
What is heavy rain?
This hot, dry season is when most wildfires happen.
What is summer?
This layer is made of melted metal and is very hot.
What is the outer core?
This hot, melted rock comes out of a volcano.
What is lava?
People go to this safe place in their home during a tornado.
What is the basement?
The Frank Slide happened in this Canadian province.
What is Alberta?
Firefighters create these clear areas with no trees to help stop fires.
What are firebreaks?
This layer is solid metal and the hottest part of Earth.
What is the inner core?
Volcanoes often form near the edges of these moving plates.
What are tectonic plates?
Tornadoes usually form during this kind of weather.
What are thunderstorms?
The Frank Slide happened when part of this mountain collapsed.
What is Turtle Mountain?
Smoke from wildfires can make this hard to do.
What is breathe?
These giant pieces of the crust move slowly and can cause earthquakes.
What are tectonic plates?
This cloud of tiny rock pieces and dust can shoot into the sky during an eruption.
What is ash?
This scale measures how strong a tornado is.
What is the Fujita scale (or F‑scale)?
One reason the Frank Slide happened was because the mountain had many cracks and this type of rock.
What is limestone?
People sometimes have to do this to stay safe when a wildfire gets too close.
What is evacuate (leave the area)?