Layers of the Earth
5 layers of the Earth.
What is lithosphere, asthenosphere, mantle, outer core, and inner core?
3 types of plate boundaries
What are convergent, divergent, and transform boundaries?
A piece of land surrounded by water.
What is an island?
Point where energy release first occurs.
What is the focus?
Hot liquid rock when it is outside of the volcano.
What is lava?
Layers made of iron and nickel.
What are the outer and inner cores?
Layer of Earth that the tectonic plates float on.
What is asthenosphere?
A deep valley with very steep sides formed by erosion.
What is a canyon?
The region where 80% of earthquakes occur.
What is Circum-Pacific Belt (Pacific Ring of Fire)?
Volcanoes that have not erupted in the last 10,000 years and will not erupt again.
What is an extinct volcano?
Layer that has convection currents.
What is the mantle?
Convergent boundary where one plate moves underneath another plate.
What is a subduction zone?
Land that is surrounded by water on 3 sides.
What is a peninsula?
Point above the focus on Earth's surface.
What is the epicenter?
Volcanoes that have not erupted within the last 10,000 years but could erupt again.
What is dormant volcanoes?
Two types of crust.
What is continental and oceanic?
Came up with the theory of continental drift.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
A body of water that is partly enclosed by land and is smaller than a gulf.
What is a bay?
The three types of seismic waves.
What are primary, secondary, and surface waves?
The largest volcano in the solar system and the planet it is on.
What is Olympus Mons on Mars?
Hot liquid rock within the Earth's surface.
What is magma?
Seafloor spreading occurs along this type of boundary.
What is a divergent boundary?
A narrow strip of land connect 2 larger landmasses.
What is an isthmus?
Type of seismic wave that is the most destructive.
What is surface waves?
Channel which magma travels through.
What is a conduit?