These are the layers of the earth from the thinnest to the thickest.
What is the crust, inner core, outer core, mantle?
100
These are the five main parts of a volcano.
What is the magma chamber, pipe, vents, crater, lava flow?
100
The point of the earthquake located directly above the focus.
What is the epicenter?
100
Name the three types of plates and what they do.
What is Divergent – divide, Convergent – collide, Transform - slide?
100
These are the three types of rocks and how they are formed.
What is Igneous – melting and cooling
Sedimentary- squeezing and cementing
Metamorphic- squeezing and heating
200
The asthenosphere is located here.
What is the mantle?
200
The difference in magma and lava is this.
What is magma is molten inside the Earth and lava is when it erupts?
200
These are the three types of earthquake waves.
What is Primary Waves (P Waves), Secondary Waves, (S Waves), Surface Waves?
200
An oceanic plate sinks below a continental plate causing gravity to pull the oceanic plate faster into the mantle.
What is subduction?
200
This is why mountains are still "growing taller.
What is uplift - two crustal plates pushing against one another, forcing rock upward?
300
The lithosphere is located here.
What is the crust and upper mantle?
300
Area where material from deep within the mantle rises then melts, forming magma; a volcano forms above the hotspot when magma erupts through the crust.
What is a hotspot?
300
Point beneath the Earth's surface where rock under pressure breaks to cause earthquakes.
What is the focus?
300
When the lithosphere is destroyed, most likely causing mountains but can cause mountains, earthquakes and volcanoes, this type of plate is most likely present.
What is convergent plate
300
This explains how plate tectonics lead to new rock in the rock cycle.
What is the movement of tectonic plates causes an increase in magma production by volcanoes?
400
The outer core is made of this.
What is liquid nickel and iron?
400
75% of the Earth's volcanoes are located here.
What is the Ring of Fire?
400
This type of plate boundary makes up the San Andreas Fault.
What is transform plate boundaries?
400
Convergent plates do this when they collide
What is form mountains or earthquakes?
400
The time it takes for half of a sample of radioactive substance to undergo radioactive decay to form daughter isotopes.
What is half-life
500
The layer of the Earth that vibrates in place because of pressure.
What is the inner core?
500
The difference in a dormant and extinct volcano is this.
What is:
Dormant: not active, but may become active
Extinct: unlikely to erupt again
500
These are the three types of faults and what they do.
What is:
Normal Fault- forces two blocks of rock apart – located in divergent plate boundary.
Strike-Slip Fault- two blocks of rock slide horizontally past one another in opposite directions – located in transform plate boundaries.
Reverse Fault – force pushes two blocks on rock together with block above fault moving up relative to the block below the fault - Located in the convergent plate boundaries?
500
Explain the Theory of Continental Drift - the evidence found, and name the scientist that came up with this theory.
What is Alfred Wegener developed the theory of plate tectonics says that there used to be one supercontinent called Pangea and continents drifted apart. He has evidence of this because he found similar fossils on the coasts of the continents that use to be together.
500
To determine the relative age of rocks, scientists use this method most often.