Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Fossils
Fossil Fuels
Etc.
100
Instrument used to measure the ground's vibrations
What is a seismograph?
100
Magma is found in this layer of the Earth
What is the mantle?
100
Substance which preserves a whole plant or animal as a fossil
What is sap?
100
Makeup, medicines, and plastics are made of this
What is oil (petroleum)?
100
Layer of Earth which contains the ocean floor
What is the crust?
200
Point on Earth's surface directly above where an earthquake starts
What is the epicenter?
200
Rocky opening through which hot lava flows
What is a vent?
200
Imprint made by the outside of a dead plant or animal
What is a mold?
200
Hardest type of coal which contains the greatest amount of carbon
What is anthracite?
200
The thickest layer of the Earth
What is the mantle?
300
Measurement for the strongest earthquake
What is 8.0 on the Richter scale?
300
Volcano with steep peaks and gently sloping sides, such as Mount Fuji
What is a composite volcano?
300
Footprints, burrows, and droppings form these fossils
What are trace fossils?
300
Type of rock in which fossil fuels are found
What is sedimentary rock?
300
Earth's hottest layer
What is the inner core?
400
A break in the crust along which rocks move
What is a fault?
400
An underground holding pool for hot magma
What is a magma chamber?
400
Youngest fossils are found in this layer of rock
What is the top layer?
400
Formed mostly from microorganisms that lived in the seas (2)
What are petroleum and natural gas?
400
Form when plates move toward each other
What are mountains?
500
Earth's crust and upper mantle are broken into these
What is are plates?
500
Small volcanoes with steep sides made of hardened lava chunks
What is a cinder cone volcano?
500
Forms when minerals fill a mold fossil and harden
What is a cast?
500
A soft brown material made up of partly decayed plants
What is peat?
500
Bones or other hard parts may be replaced by minerals and form this type of fossil
What is petrified?
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