Earth
The layer of Earth that we live on.
What is the crust?
Where an earthquake starts (on the surface)
What is the epicenter?
Cooled lava/magma (what type of rock)
What is igneous?
The name of the super continent
experienced yourself
The layer that is at the center of the Earth
What is the Inner Core?
Scientist study these to understand earthquakes
What are seismic waves?
Formed from layers of small pieces (type of rock)
What is sedimentary?
The study of earth's characteristics, what it's made of, and the processes that shape it
to leave something behind
What is deposit?
A crack in Earth's surface
What is a fault?
A volcano that is not erupting but could
What is dormant?
(will accept inactive BUT it's dormant on the test)
When rocks break into smaller pieces?
What is weathering?
When one plate slides under another
What is subduction?
To use effort
What is exert?
When one plate goes under another
Three types of volcanoes
What are active, dormant, and extinct?
When sediments are moved somewhere else
Early scientist who proposed continental drift
Who is Alfred Wegner?
Continents slowly moving apart
What is continental drift?
Formed when subduction occurs
What is a trench?
The cause of earthquakes
What are tectonic plates shifting?
This carved the Grand Canyon
What is erosion?
Write the following adjectives in order
plastic, new, exciting, jogging
exciting, new, plastic, jogging
condition (solid, liquid, gas)
What is state?