Vocabulary
Volcanoes
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The Earth
100
Outermost layer of Earth
What is the crust?
100
There are this many types of volcanoes
What is three?
100
Most earthquakes occur along this
What is a fault?
100
The point underground where an earthquakes first movement takes place
What is the focus?
100
Earths hottest layer
What is the core?
200
Middle layer of Earth
What is the mantle?
200
Melted rock inside the earth
What is magma?
200
This earthquake scale measures the damage done by an earthquake
What is the Mercalli scale?
200
The point on the earths surface right about where the first movement of an earthquake takes place.
What is the epicenter?
200
The layer which we live on
What is the crust?
300
Innermost layer of Earth
What is the core?
300
A volcano is a mountain formed by this
What is lava?
300
This is the point below earths surface where an earthquake begins
What is the focus?
300
Melted rock that reaches the earths surface
What is lava?
300
This usually forms when plates come together
What is volcanoes and mountains
400
A large basin that is created when a volcano falls in on itself
What is a crater?
400
This is the rocky tube through which magma flows
What is a conduit?
400
Name the three ways that plates can move
What is away from each other, towards each other, and past each other?
400
Tube in a volcano that carries hot melted rock to the surface
What is a vent?
400
This is the three ways in which plates move
What is towards each other, away from each other, and past each other?
500
A break in earths crust along which rocks move
What is a fault?
500
Name the three different types of volcanoes
What is shield, composite, and cinder cone?
500
This is the cause of an earthquake
What is the build up and sudden release of energy that moves plates?
500
Continent sized slab of the earths crust and upper mantle
What is a plate?
500
This is your favorite place on earth to be
What is in your fourth grade classroom!?!?
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