Layers of Earth
The layers of Earth from outside to inside.
What is Crust, Mantle, Outer Core, Inner Core?
The Earths crust and upper part of the mantle are broken into sections called _________.
What are plate tectonics?
Volcanoes do not form at this plate boundary.
What is transform boundary?
Point on Earth's surface directly above Earthquake Focus
What is Epicenter?
Volcano with a low profile.
What is a Shield volcano?
Solid outer section of the Earth including the crust and mantle.
What is the lithosphere?
German meteorologist and geophysicist who came up with the first theory of continental drift.
Smallest type of volcano
What is cinder cone?
Wave generated by an earthquake.
What is Seismic Wave?
Gigantic supercontinent that occurred 200 million years ago.
What is Pangea?
The densest layer of the Earth, made up of solid nickel and iron.
What is the Inner Core?
Three types of plate boundaries.
What are convergent, divergent, and transform.
What are stratovolcanoes, shield, and cinder cones?
The types of waves from fastest to slowest.
What is primary, secondary, surface?
This happens at Convergent boundaries.
What is plates collide? What is mountain forms?
______________ crust is thicker and older.
What is Continental?
__________________ occurs at transform boundaries.
What are earthquakes?
Tall, cone shaped mountain volcano.
What is Stratovolcano?
The tool to measure earthquake strength.
What is a seismograph?
This occurs at transform boundaries
Responsible for Earth's Magnetic Field.
What is the Outer Core?
The process where one lithospheric plate plunges down underneath another lithospheric plate into the mantle.
What is subduction?
Volcano that forms over hot spots
What is shield volcano?
The point below the Earth’s surface where energy is released in the form of seismic waves, the earthquake begins here.
What is focus?
Two pieces of evidence that led to continental drift.
What are puzzle pieces, fossil evidence, and/or similar land forms?