Earth's Layers
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Review
100
The layer of the Earth that we are on.
What is crust
100
The shaking of the Earth's crust
What is an earthquake
100
A mountain that forms from lava is a....
What is volcano
100
What happens when plates rub against each other side to side
What is earthquake
200
The deepest layer of the Earth. It's the center of the Earth.
What is core
200
The machine used to measure an earthquake
What is a seismograph.
200
Melted rock that comes out of a volcano
What is lava
200
What occurs when plates push together
What is mountain
300
The thickest layer of the Earth
What is mantle
300
A break in the crust along which rocks move.
What is fault
300
Melted rock inside a volcano
What is magma
300
What is the major fault in California called
What is San Andreas Fault
400
Earth's crust and upper mantle are broken into these.
What is plates
400
The place underground where movement first occurs.
What is focus
400
The place where the magma is stored at the bottom of a volcano before it comes through the vent.
What is magma chamber
400
Name the 2 scales that are used to measure earthquakes
What is Mercalli and Richter scale
500
Name the three ways that plates move
What is towards each other, away from each other, and slide by each other.
500
The point above the focus where an earthquake occurs.
What is epicenter
500
A large basin that forms at the top of a volcano
What is crater
500
Name one way that volcanoes help the earth
What is volcanoes provide minerals to soil.
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