Layers
Continents
Earthquakes and Volcanoes
Weathering/Erosion
Miscellaneous
100
The Layers of the Earth
What is the crust, the mantle, the outer core and the inner core?
100
The name for the "supercontinent" that existed during the time of the dinosaurs.
What is Pangea?
100
Most of the earthquakes in the U.S. happen here.
What is Alaska?
100
This word means that rocks crack, crumble and break apart but stay where they are.
What is weathering?
100
The name of the area where a small body of water (river) meets the ocean.
What is the mouth?
200
It's made of molten rock and is the thickest layer.
What is the mantle?
200
When the continents and plates move, it's called this.
What is continental drift?
200
Most of the world's earthquakes and volcanoes are located here.
What is the Ring of Fire?
200
Weathered rock that is brought to a new location is called this.
What is erosion?
200
The beginning of a river.
What is the source?
300
This is the thinnest layer and is made of rocks and soil?
What is the crust?
300
The coming together of 2 plates... The Appalachian Mountains were formed this way.
What is a convergent boundary?
300
This volcano has steep sides and an explosive nature?
What is a composite volcano?
300
The two kinds of weathering that cause rocks to crack and crumble.
What are chemical and physical?
300
The term for what happens when the forces of erosion deposit or leave sediment in a new location.
What is deposition?
400
This layer is a hot ball of solid iron.
What is the inner core?
400
The side to side movement of plates (slide) causing earthquakes.
What is transforming?
400
This type of volcano produces lava slowly and is the type that created the Hawaiian Islands.
What is a shield volcano?
400
This change takes the longest time (slowest).
What is weathering?
400
Huge ice sheets that slowly change the Earth.
What are glaciers?
500
The Earth's crust is divided into these.
What are tectonic plates?
500
When two plates move apart causing intense volcanic activity.
What is divergent?
500
These are the 2 types of seismic waves created earthquakes.
What are S waves and P waves?
500
An example of erosion happening rapidly.
Answers will vary What is a landslide? What is hurricane beach erosion?
500
This is used to measure the strength of an earthquake.
What is the Richter scale?
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