Earth's Layers
Earth's Boundaries
Earth's Boundaries
Earthquakes & Volcanoes
Vocabulary
100
These are the three layers of the Earth from inner to outer
What is core, mantle, crust
100
These are the three boundaries
What is divergent, convergent, and transform fault
100
These plates move away from each other
What is divergent
100
These are the 3 waves of an earthquake
What is P wave, S wave, Surface wave
100
Theory scientist use to describe the movement of plates
What is Plate Tectonics
200
This is located in the upper mantle
What is asthenosphere
200
These are the three type of convergent collisions
What is 2 oceanic, 2 continental, oceanic & continental
200
These plates grind past each other
What is transform fault
200
This is the strongest and most damaging of the 3 earthquake waves
What is Surface wave
200
The intial movement of an earthquake
What is focus
300
This area is made up of a cool, rigid portion of the Earth
What is lithoshpere
300
This is what a convergent boundary forms (all of them)
What is earthquakes, volcanoes, trenches, mountains
300
This is what transform fault boundaries produce
What is mountains
300
These are the three types of volcanoes
What is composite, shield, cinder cone
300
This is where divergent boundaries happen
What is mid ocean ridges
400
How many major plates are there
What is 7
400
This is what a divergent boundary produces
What is rift or new ocean floor
400
This is what is produced when 2 oceanic plates collide
What is trenches
400
This volcanoe is the largest of the three
What is shield
400
Measures the amount of energy released during an earthquake
What is Richter Scale
500
This is the property that the asthenosphere has
What is plasticity
500
This is what is produced when an oceanic and continental plates collide
What is mountains & volcanoes
500
Which type of plate is weaker, oceanic or continental
What is oceanic
500
This is why we do not feel 95% of earthquakes that happen on Earth
What is they happen in the ocean
500
This is what forms where two plates move apart
What is rift
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