Earth
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Biomes
Plate Tectonics
100
The innermost compositional layer of Earth
What is the core?
100
The point inside Earth where an earthquake actually begins
What is a focus?
100
A vent or fissure in Earth's surface through which magma and gases are expelled
What is a volcano?
100
a large region characterized by a specific type of climate and certain types of plant and animal communities
What is a biome?
100
A break in a body of rock along which one block slides relative to another
What is a fault?
200
The compositional layer of Earth made of silicon, oxygen, and magnesium.
What is the mantle?
200
The point on Earth's surface directly above an earthquake's starting point
What is an epicenter?
200
Magma that flows onto Earth's surface
What is lava?
200
Any natural material that is used by humans
What is a natural resource?
200
The bending of rock layers in response to stress
What is folding?
300
The measure of how hot or cold something is
What is temperature?
300
A movement or trembling of the ground that is caused by a sudden release of energy when rocks along a fault move
What is an earthquake?
300
Liquid rock produced under Earth's surface
What is magma?
300
A triangular diagram that shows an ecosystem's loss of energy, which results as energy passes through the ecosystem's food chain
What is an energy pyramid?
300
The theory that explains how large pieces of Earth's outermost layer (tectonic plates) move and change shape
What is plate tectonics?
400
The transfer of energy as electromagnetic waves
What is radiation?
400
The amount of damage caused by an earthquake (measured on the Modified Mercalli scale from I to XII)
What is intensity?
400
A word that describes magma or igneous rock that is rich i-n magnesium and iron and is generally dark in color
What is mafic?
400
The study of the interactions of living organisms with one another and with their environment
What is ecology?
400
A block of lithosphere that consists of the crust and the rigid, outermost layer of the mantle
What is a tectonic plate?
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