Layers of the Earth
Vocab 1
Vocab 2
Plates
Review
100
Center of the Earth, composed mostly of solid iron (Pit of a peach)
What is Inner Core
100
The Appalachian Mountains are an example of this type of mountain.
What is Folded
100
Mountain that is created when forces inside the earth push through the crust. Ex Southern Rocky Mountains
What is Upwarped
100
The result of a build up of energy at sliding plate boundaries that is suddenly released.
What is Earthquake
100
The number of major land biomes.
What is 7 (Tundra, Taiga, Tem DF, Tem RF, Tro RF, Desert, Grassland)
200
Layer of the Earth composed mostly of molten metal. Stops one type of seismic wave and slows down another.
What is Outer Core
200
When one plate goes underneath another.
What is Subduction
200
Mountain formed when layer upon layer of lava cools on top of each other.
What is Volcanic
200
The land form that is created at colliding plates boundaries.
What is Mountain
200
Contains a mixture of fresh and salt water.
What is Estuary
300
Largest layer of the earth. Even though it is solid it flows slowly.
What is Mantle
300
The lithosphere is broken into about 30 of these.
What is Plates
300
The super continent
What is Pangaea
300
The type of plate movement that creates new crust.
What is Separating Plates
300
The four types of organisms in an ecosystem
What is Herbivore, Carnivore, Omnivore, Decomposer
400
We live on this layer of the Earth
What is Crust
400
Large fractures in rock where movement between plates occurs.
What is Faults
400
The three types of waves that are caused by earth quakes.
What is P,S, and Surface
400
The approximate amount that a plate moves per year.
What is 2 cm
400
A heart worm in a dog is an example of this relationship.
What is Parasitism
500
Crust and upper part of the Mantle
What is Lithosphere
500
Mountains made of huge tilted blocks of rock that are separated from surrounding rock. Ex Sierra Nevada
What is Fault-block
500
The idea that when a mountain erodes, the crust underneath it moves up because weight has been removed.
What is Isostasy
500
Name of the plate that the USA is located on.
What is North American Plate
500
The two ways that producers create their own food.
What is Chemosynthesis, Photosynthesis
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