Earth's Layers
What is the core?
What is the Earths center and densest layer?
What is a volcano?
What is any place where ash, smoke, or melted rock come out of the ground?
What is an earthquake?
What is when the ground shakes occur in blocks of rock on the lithosphere?
What is Pangaea?
What is a landmass from 245 million years ago?
What is fault blocks?
What is blocks of rock on the sides of a fault?
What is the crust?
What is Earth's outermost layer?
What is dormant?
What is when an eruption hasn't occurred in a long time.
What is a focus?
What is a place within Earth along a fault where the first movement of an earthquake occurs?
What is plate tectonics?
What is large scale movements of the lithosphere?
What is tension?
What is stress that pulls rocks apart?
What is the mantel?
What is the layer between the core and crust?
What is a magma chamber?
What is where molten rock can be melted inside a volcano.
What is elastic rebound?
What is when rock returns to normal after deformation?
What is sea-floor spreading?
What is a process that explains the magnetic powers of seafloor rocks?
What is compression?
What is stress that squeezes rocks together?
What is the lithosphere?
What is the outermost ridged layer of Earth?
What is a hot spot?
What is where hot mantel plume rises through the asthenosphere.
What is a tsunami?
What is a big wave of water caused by an earthquake?
What is a convergent boundary?
What is where two plates collide?
What is shear stress?
What is stress that pushes rocks horizontally?
What is the mesosphere
What is the middle physical layer of Earth?
What is the Ring of Fire?
What is where most active volcanoes are under water.
What is defamation?
What is the process where rocks become deformed due to stress?
What is divergent boundaries?
What is when two plates move away from each other?
What is a fault?
What is when a crack forms when big rocks break and move past each other?