The Structure of Earth
Plates of Earth
How Mountains are Formed
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
100

How many layers is Earth made of?

 four layers

100

Many of Earth's features are formed by the motion of these

plates

100
Most mountains are formed in groups called these
What is ranges?
100
About this number of earthquakes happen every year
What is one million?
100
in a quiet eruptions, this flows slowly out of the volcano
What is lava?
200

this layer is at the very center of Earth

inner core

200

The plates do this on the hot liquid rock of the mantle below them

rest

200
Dome-shaped mountains are usually these types of mountains
What is low?
200
A fault is the place where two of these meet
What is plates?
200
This type of volcanoes are formed when lava spreads out around the vent in a quiet eruption
What is shield volcano?
300

This layer is made of hot liquid metal

outer core

300

Plates can move in these 3 ways

What is toward each other, away from each other, orpast each other?

300
Mountains in a range have about the same of this
What is size?
300
When the plates move, the crust near this is squeezed and stretched
What is the fault?
300
This type of volcano is formed when when a volcano erupts violently and throws cinders out the top
What is cinder cones?
400

This is the thickest layer of Earth

mantle

400
The is the line where two plates pass each other
What is a fault?
400
This is the longest mountain range in the world
What is Andes?
400
This is usually less than 25 miles below the surface
What is the focus?
400
This type of volcano is formed when cinders make up some layers and lava flows make up other layers
What is composite volcano?
500

This is the outer layer of Earth

crust

500
These are three of the major plates on Earth
What is Eurasian, the Africa, and The South American?
500
Fault-block mountains are formed when broken rock does this along a fault line
What is pushed up?
500
The Ring of Fire is a chain of these zones and volcanoes that circle the Pacific Plate
What is earthquake?
500
A volcanic rock about the size of a golf ball
What are cinders?
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