Vocabulary Words
Volcanoes
Earth Quakes
Mountains
Continental Drift
100
Magma is...
What is molten rock from the earth's mantle?
100
A large mountain containing lava is called..
What is a volcano?
100
An earthquake is...
What is the shaking of the ground caused by the release of energy in the earth's crust?
100
Mountains are the ___________ landforms on earth
What is highest?
100
Define Continental Drift
What is the theory of how the earth's continents have moved over its surface?
200
Lava is...
What is magma that has reached the earth's surface?
200
Volcanic eruptions are caused by...
What is when magma melts a hole in the plate and rises through the hole?
200
Earthquakes can destroy...
What is houses, ridges, roads, power lines, etc.
200
Mountains form because
What is crust bends upward as the earth's plates move.
200
Pangea is...
What is the supercontinent that existed on the earth 200 million years ago?
300
The earth's core is...
What is the hottest, most center layer of the earth?
300
Most of the world's volcanoes are found in this area, near Asia.
What is the Pacific Rim?
300
The largest recorded earthquake took place in...
What is Anchorage Alaska?
300
The earth's highest mountain range is...
What is the Himalayas?
300
True or False: The earth's surface never changes.
What is False. The earth's surface is always changing.
400
Pangea is...
What is the theory that about 200 million years ago a supercontinent existed on the earth.
400
True or False: A dormant volcano can never erupt again.
What is False. Dormant volcanoes are inactive, but have the potential to erupt in the future.
400
True or False: most earthquakes are too small to be felt or cause damage.
What is True?
400
True or False: Mountains get taller over time..
What is True. as the earth's plates push against each other, mountains continue to grow upward.
400
The name of the northern continent, made up of North America, Europe and Asia.
What is Laurasia
500
Fossils are...
What is remains of past life found in some rocks?
500
The volcano that erupted in America in the 1980s is called...
What is Mount St. Helens
500
_____ million earthquakes occur each year.
What is more than a million?
500
The largest mountain in the world is...
What is Mount Everest?
500
As the world continues to change this will happen to the Atlantic Ocean...
What is get wider?
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