Earth's Interior
Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Random
100
This is the thinnest layer of the Earth, found at the surface.
What is the crust?
100
This is the term for two plates that move into each other and form mountains.
What are convergent boundaries?
100
This is the wave that is FIRST detected when an earthquake happens.
What are p-waves/primary waves?
100
This is the term for the liquid rock that may come out of a volcano.
What is lava?
100
What could happen if there is an earthquake or volcanic eruption underwater?
A tsunami could occur.
200
Liquid hot material in Earth’s mantle
What is magma?
200
This is the term for plates that move AWAY from each other, like at mid-ocean ridges.
What are divergent boundaries?
200
These are the waves that are detected second during an earthquake.
What are s-waves/secondary waves?
200
This is the term for the large cluster of volcanoes found around the Pacific plate.
What is the "Ring of Fire"?
200
Volcanoes form this type of rock.
What is igneous rock?
300
As you move deeper towards the center of the Earth, pressure _____________.
What is increases?
300
What is a transform boundary?
300
How can you stay safe during an earthquake?
Hide under a desk/table/doorway, stay away from windows and glass, avoid objects that could fall and hurt you/etc.
300
This is the name of the volcano in Washington that erupted in 1980.
What is Mt. St. Helens?
300
This is the hottest layer of the Earth.
What is the inner core?
400
Name the layers of the Earth from surface to center:
What is crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core.
400
Which type of boundary is associated with volcanoes?
What is subduction?
400
What is the term for the location an earthquake starts on the surface?
What is the epicenter?
400
What is a dormant volcano?
A volcano that has not erupted in a long time and does not have much geological activity.
400
Mount Everest was created by which type of plate boundary?
What is a convergent boundary?
500
This is the largest layer of the Earth.
What is the mantle?
500
What two boundaries are seen here?
What are subduction and divergent?
500
This is the tool that measures the intensity of an earthquake.
What is a seismograph?
500
Where is the largest active volcano in the world?
What is Mauna Loa, Hawaii.
500
This is the name of the supercontinent that once comprised of every continent on Earth.
What is Pangaea?