Hot iron mixed with other metals and rocks, below the
Earth's surface.Scientist believe it is made up of iron and
nickel.
What is the core
100
How the continents were formed and why they move.
What is the theory of plate tectonics?
100
The Pacific Ocean
What is Where most of the world's volcanoes are located?
100
Mantle, outer core, inner core, and crust
What are the layers of Earth?
100
Inner core/solid, outer core /liquid, inner mantle/solid rock,
outer mantle/meltable rock and crust/ rocky shell.
What is What layers of Earth are solid and which ones are liquid?
200
This layer is so hot that the metal has melted into a liquid.
The temperatures reach as high as 8,500F.
What is the outer core?
200
I was once a large puzzle piece of a landmass that the scientist called. It seems that Africa can fit into South America.
What is Pangaea?
200
Volcanoes might form in the ... and create islands or the oceans might grow larger as the plates pull land masses away from each other.
What is the Atlantic ocean and plate movements?
200
I contain the ocean floors.
What is crust?
200
Water, wind and ice can move away weathered rock in a
process called...
What is Erosion?
300
Surrounding me is a layer of hot dense rock about 1,770 miles thick, and I too have two layers
What is the mantle?
300
When two continental plates collide, they push against each other with tremendous force. This causes the land along the line where the plates meet to...
What is rise and form mountains?
300
"Tsunamis "
What is an underwater earthquake?
300
Mantle
What is I am the thickest layer?
300
In cold areas giant slow moving masses form where water
accumulates, and they carry rocks that wear down the mountains and carve out valleys.
What is ice glaciers?
400
The thin rocky shell that forms the surface. It reaches only 31 to 62 miles deep. I include the seven large continents.
What is the crust?
400
Collision of the continental and oceanic plates, the thinner oceanic plate slides underneath the thicker continental plates and it causes...
What is magma to build up, the magma erupts and slowly hardens forming a volcanic mountains.
400
Faults
What is two plates that do not meet head on, but move along side by side and this movement makes cracks in the Earth's surface.
400
Because of me earthquake and volcanoes happen.
What is Plate tectonics?
400
Plates move the continents on top of them and can cause a...
What is continental drift?
500
During a volcano eruption I flow to the surface and then I am called lava, before hand I am just melted rock
What is magma?
500
I am a sudden and violent movement of Earth's crust. I happen in places where the Earth's crust is unstable, because of the ocean and continental plates meeting.
What is a Eartquake?
500
San Andreas
What is Well known faults in the United States in California?
500
Acid rain falls on Earth and I cause rocks to break into small
pieces. Even ice and plants cause me to happen.
What is Weathering?
500
Africa, North America, Asia, Antarctica, Europe, South America, and Australia