Layers of the Earth
Tectonic Plates
Faults
Destruction from Tectonic Plates
Other
100
First layer of the earth
What is the crust?
100
New sea floor comes from here
What are mid ocean ridges?
100
The stress that pulls rock
What is tension?
100
The place where gas, ash or melted rock comes out of the ground
What are volcanoes?
100
The bends in the crust
What are folds?
200
The largest layer of the earth?
What is the Mantle?
200
The boundary where two plates move away from each other
What is a divergent boundary?
200
The fault where plates move apart

What is a normal fault?

200
The tall waves caused by earthquakes which hit water
What are tsunamis?
200
The point right above the focus
What is the epicenter?
300
This layer forms the magnetic field
What is the outer core?
300
The man who proposed the idea of sea-floor spreading
Who is Alfred Wegener?
300
This is when two plates are pushed together to form a moountain
What is a reverse fault?
300
The area where 90% of volcanoes occur
What is the Ring of Fire?
300
The place in Earth along a fault at which the first motion of an Earthquake occurred
What is the focus?
400
The layer where the tectonic plates float on
What is the lithosphere?
400
The super massive continent
What is Pangea?
400
This occurs when rocks are pushed parallel in a fault
What is Shear Stress?
400
The type of volcanoes that haven't erupted since a long time
What are dormant volcanoes?
400
The process where rock becomes changed by stress
What is deformation?
500
The layer under the lithosphere
What is the asthenosphere?
500
The super ocean surrounding the super continent
What is Panthalasa?
500
The strike slip fault that stretches across California
What is San Andreas Fault?
500
The type of volcano formed at a divergent boundary?
What are hot spots?
500
The return of rock from deformation
What is elastic rebound?
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