Earth Layers
Just Between Us
So What Do You Know
Im Made of This
That Dreaded Spelling Category
100
Im the hottest layer
What is core?
100
Im where the plates are moving apart
What is divergent boundary?
100
The least dense of the layers of Earth
What is crust?
100
Iron and Nickel
What is core (inner and outer core)?
100
The Hawaiian Islands is considered this
What are H-O-T S-P-O-T-S?
200
Im found between the crust and the upper mantle
What is lithosphere?
200
We just move past each other
What is transform boundary?
200
Hot molten rocks underground
What is magma?
200
Silicon and oxygen
What is the crust?
200
The layer where the crust and upper mantle meet
What is L-I-T-H-O-S-P-H-E-R-E?
300
Im the middle layer of the Earth
What is mantle?
300
We bump heads
What is convergent boundary?
300
Underwater mountain ranges
What are mid-ocean ridges?
300
The rock basalt
What is oceanic crust?
300
Found at convergent boundaries, where two plates meet, and the more dense plates sinks under the less dense plate
What is S-U-B-D-U-C-T-I-O-N Z-O-N-E?
400
Im the oceanic and continental
What is crust?
400
Earthquakes are frequent here
What is transform boundary?
400
Scientists use these to study the layers of the Earth
What are seismic or earthquake waves?
400
Magnesium and iron
What is mantle?
400
The upper portion of the mantle
What is A-S-T-H-E-N-O-S-P-H-E-R-E?
500
The upper, plastic layer of the mantle
What is asthenosphere?
500
When a more dense plate sinks beneath a less dense plate
What is subduction zone?
500
I form over an ever erupting volcano and scientists use me to determine the rate and direction of plate movements
What are Hot Spots?
500
The rock granite
What is continental crust?
500
The process that moves the rocks; heating, rising, sinking, and cooling of materials
What is c-O-N-V-E-C-T-I-O-N C-U-R-R-E-N-T?
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