Earth's Surface
Earth's Surface II
Earth's Plates
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
100
The layer of Earth that extends from the bottom of the mantle to Earth's center.
What is the core.
100
Which part of the Earth consists of the crust and the uppermost part of the mantle?
What is the lithosphere.
100
The theory that lithosphere is divided into plates that are always moving.
What is plate tectonics.
100
A break in Earth's crust where rocks move past one another.
What is a fault.
100
Which volcano is formed by a violent volcanic eruption?
What is a cinder cone.
200
The thin outer skin of Earth.
What is the crust.
200
What is the dropping or settling of eroded material?
What is deposition.
200
A deep valley where plates move apart.
What is a rift.
200
The point inside Earth where an earthquake begins.
What is the focus.
200
Why have the Hawaiian Islands formed?
What is a hot spot.
300
The layer of Earth under the crust.
What is the mantle.
300
What is a huge sheet of ice that stays frozen all year?
What is a glacier.
300
The name of earth as a supercontinent.
What is Pangea.
300
This is the result of energy being released as rocks in a fault slide past one another.
What is an earthquake.
300
Which volcano is dome shaped?
What is a shield.
400
The removal and transportation of weathered material.
What is erosion.
400
The process of boulders being broken down into smaller pieces.
What is weathering.
400
A plate boundary in which plates move apart.
What is a divergent boundary.
400
What type of boundary do most earthquakes occur at?
What is a transform fault boundary.
400
This volcano has only violent eruptions.
What is a composite.
500
What allows the large, stiff plates of the lithosphere to move?
What is the asthenosphere's ability to flow.
500
Name the layers of Earth from the outermost to the innermost.
What is crust-mantle-outer core- inner core.
500
A plate boundary in which plates slide past one another.
What is a transform fault boundary.
500
During an earthquake, why do P and S waves arrive at different times?
What is they travel at different speeds.
500
What is the term for the holes that magma flows out of a volcano.
What is a vent.
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