Earth's Interior
Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Miscellaneous
100
The rock layer of Earth's interior
What is Lithosphere
100
When a plate goes underneath another plate because of it being more dense than the other
What is a convergent boundary
100
The vibration of Earth produced by the rapid release of energy
What is an earthquake
100
Hot mudflows
What is a lahar
100
Big, thick, sheets of ice
What is glaciers
200
The two types of crust
What is oceanic and continental
200
Two plates moving apart from each other
What is a divergent boundary
200
The device that records earthquake waves
What is a seismograph
200
These types of volcanoes are the most explosive
What is composite cones
200
Very dry areas of land that get less than 10 inches of rain each year
What are deserts
300
The Earth's core is made up of this metal
What is iron nickel alloy
300
Plates that neither create nor destroy the lithosphere
What is a transform fault boundary
300
The smaller earthquakes after the large one
What are aftershocks
300
The name give to the particles produced in volcanic eruptions
What is pyroclastic particles
300
Liquid or rain becoming a gas
What is evaporation
400
The thick, sticky consistency between a solid and a liquid
What is viscous
400
The volcanic chain that is produced by oceanic-oceanic plates
What is volcanic island arcs
400
The two main types of seismic waves
What are the surface and body waves
400
Rotten eggs smell of these type of gases
What is sulfur compounds
400
An eruption within the next 48 hours is what type of alert?
What is an Alert 4
500
The boundary between the crust and the mantle
What is Moho
500
This is produced by two continental plates
What is a rift valley
500
The city and state that had the earthquake on Good Friday in 1964
What is Anchorage, Alaska
500
The structures that result from the cooling and hardening of magma at depth
What is plutons
500
The smallest particles staying dissolved even when the water stops moving
What is the dissolved load
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