Layers of The Earth
Crustal Plates and boundaries
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
100
This is the only liquid layer.
What is the outer core?
100
This type of boundary occurs when two plates push toward each other.
What is a convergent boundary?
100
These are created when rock under ground suddenly breaks along a fault.
What is an Earthquake?
100
This is how volcanoes can cause a tsunami.
What is a landslide from the top of a volcano?
200
This consists of two layers.
What is the Mantle?
200
This type of crust underlies continents.
What is continental crust?
200
These waves are the waves of energy caused by the sudden breaking of rock within the earths oran explosions.
What are seismic waves?
200
This is what lava is called when it is inside of a volcano.
What is Magma?
300
These are two layers made of Iron and Nickel.
What are the inner and outer core?
300
This type of crust is usually older than oceanic crust.
What is continental crust?
300
This is a place where two tectonic plates meet.
What is a fault line?
300
This is what shoots out of the center of the volcano.
What is Lava?
400
This is the crus and upper-most section of the Mantle.
What is the Lithosphere?
400
This type of boundary occurs when two plates push away or apart from each other.
What is a divergent boundary?
400
The name for when all the contients were stucked together
What is pangea
400
Volcanoes do this once in every few years, days, weeks, decades, etc.
What is Erupt?
500
These are the six layers of the Earth.
What are the Mantle, Lithosphere, Asthenosphere, Outer core, and Inner core?
500
About how many miles thick is continental crust?
What is 20 to 40 miles?
500
This is where a denser plates shifts below its neighboring plates energy is Transferred and displaced water form a wave.
What is a sub-duction zone?
500
This is what comes out of a volcano when it erupts as well as lava.
What is rocks, smoke, and ash.
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