Volcano
Plate Tectonics
Weathering
Landforms
Earthquakes
100
Batholith
What is the largest and deepest of all underground magma formations?
100
A theory scientists developed to explain how forces deep within Earth can cause ocean floors to spread and continents to move.
What is plate tectonics?
100
When waves pick up sand and deposit it in the water
What is a sandbar?
100
Mountain, valley, hill, lake, beach, plain, cliff, inlet, waterfall and coast.
What makes up Earth's landforms?
100
Epicenter
What is the center of Earth where the ground first starts shaking in an earthquake?
200
This forms when magma hardens between horizontal layers of rock.
What is a sill?
200
Geologist
Who is a scientist who examines rocks to find out about Earth's history and structure?
200
Deposition
What is the process by which eroded materials are dropped off in another place?
200
Continental Shelf
What is the ocean's floor?
200
Seisometer
What is the instrument that detects and measures waves made by earthquakes?
300
Shield, cinder cone, and composite.
What are the kinds of active volcanos?
300
Compression
What is a squeezing or pushing together of the crust?
300
A large mass of slowly flowing ice.
What is a glacier?
300
Seamount and trenches.
What ocean features are underwater mountains that do not reach the surface?
300
Tsunami
What is an earthquake that occurs underneath the ocean and causes a wave of water to be pushed upward and outward in all direction?
400
A line of volcanic mountains.
What is an island chain?
400
Fault
What are the deep cracks in Earth's crust called?
400
This is caused by temperature changes pushing, pulling or rubbing.
What is physical weathering?
400
Relief Map
What is a map that uses shading to show elevations?
400
Primary waves, secondary waves, and surface waves.
What are the three different kinds of waves?
500
Where the lava comes out at the bottom of a volcano.
What is a vent?
500
When a continental plate is compressed and the ground is forced upward.
What is a folded mountains?
500
Groundwater that breaks up under ground and forms rock caves.
What is chemical weathering?
500
Atmosphere, hydrosphere, crust, upper and lower mantle, and inner and outer core.
What are the earth's layers?
500
Earthquake
What is layers of rock that are stuck together that suddenly slip called?
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