Inside Earth
The outermost layer of Earth.
What is the crust?
This type of volcano is known for its gently sloping sides and effusive eruptions.
What is shield volcano?
This plate boundary occurs when two plates are pushing toward each other.
What is a convergent boundary?
The name of the tectonic plate we reside on.
What is the North American Plate?
This is the name for molten rock once it reaches Earth's surface.
What is lava?
This layer of Earth is the thickest.
What is the mantle?
This type of volcano is very steep and small in size, but has explosive eruptions?
This plate boundary occurs when two plates are moving apart from each other.
What is a divergent boundary?
The state known for its hotspot volcanoes, which includes Kilauea.
Hawaii
An area in the middle of a lithospheric plate where magma rises from the mantle and erupts at the Earth's surface.
What is a hotspot?
This layer of the Earth is made out of nickel and iron.
What is the core?
A volcano that is not expected to erupt again.
What is an extinct volcano?
This plate boundary occurs when two plates slide past each other.
What is a transform boundary?
This is the location of 75% of the world's volcanoes and 90% of the world's earthquakes.
What is the Ring of Fire?
A large piece of the lithosphere that floats and moves on the asthenosphere.
What is a tectonic plate?
This layer of Earth is liquid.
What is the outer core?
This is another name for a composite volcano.
What is stratovolcano?
Mountain ranges are generally formed at this type of plate boundary.
What is continent-continent convergent boundary?
Mount St. Helens is located in this state.
Where is Washington?
A measurement, in degrees, of a place's distance north or south of the equator.
What is latitude?
This layer of Earth is responsible for the generating the Earth's magnetic field?
What is the outer core?
A small depression at the top of a volcano which has gotten blown off after an eruption.
What is a crater?
Island arcs are formed at this type of plate boundary.
What is ocean-ocean convergent boundary?
The 2002 eruption of Mount Nyiragongo affected residents of what city?
What is Goma?
The plastic layer of the Earth the plates move on.
What is the asthenosphere?