Plate Boundaries
Volcanoes
Earth's Layers
Earth Quakes
Mountain Building
100
Two plates moving away from one another
What is divergent boundary
100
Where do volcanoes form?
What is areas where large quantities of heat escape at the surface
100
What is the layer of the earth that the crust's plates float on?
What is the mantle
100
What do you measure earthquakes with?
What is seismograph
100
What is the composition of mountains?
What is rock
200
Plates sliding past one another
What is transform plate boundary
200
When a big eruption causes all the magma to hallow the magma chamber quickly, the roof of the chamber will sometimes cave in causing a....
What is caldera
200
What is the state of master of the inner core
What is solid
200
Do earthquakes only happen over fault zones?
What is no
200
How are mountains most commonly formed?
What is convergent plates colliding
300
A young plate boundary
What is continental rift zone
300
A volcano with broad slopes that typically form over oceanic hot spots
What is a shield volcano
300
The crust and uppermost layer of the mantle makes up the
What is the lithosphere
300
List two effects of earthquakes
What is mudslides, fires, floods, tsunamis
300
Where is the highest mountain on earth?
What is the ocean
400
This boundary leaves an impact of a rugged mountain range and occasionally a deep seafloor trench
What is convergent boundary
400
Why is the Pacific Ocean called the ring of fire?
What is because the pacific plate is subducting because it's convergent allowing magma to seep up when mountains/volcanos are formed
400
What is the outer core made out of?
What is iron
400
How do scientists assign magnitude to a quake?
What is based on strength and duration of seismic waves
400
How high does a mountain have to be to be considered a mountain?
What is 600 meters
500
Magma formed from melting plates turns into...
What is granite
500
What is the difference between a shield and a composite volcano
What is one has a social life and the other one doesn't -F.S
500
What layer of the earth has convection currents?
What is the mantle
500
Annually, how many people die in earthquakes?
What is 10,000
500
What fraction of the world's people live on mountains?
What is 1/10th
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