Layers of the Earth
Changes to the Earth's Surface
Volcanoes
their Friend, the Earthquake
Science Fact of the Day
100
The thickest layer of the earth.
What is the Crust.
100
A giant sheet of ice about the size of a football field.
What is a glacier.
100
How volcanoes are named.
What is by their kind of eruption.
100
One similarity between volcanoes and earthquakes.
What is (answers will vary)
100
The only animal that can fly backwards.
What is the hummingbird
200
The part of the Earth that is a solid metal ball pressed by Earth's pressure.
What is the Core.
200
What the Earth's supercontinent was once called.
What is Pangea.
200
The 3 types of volcanoes we have learned.
What are shield, cinder cone, and composite.
200
The name for a large crack in the Earth.
What is a fault.
200
Besides measuring your head to your foot, another way you can use your body to measure your height.
What is measuring your wingspan.
300
What the lithosphere is.
What is the crust and the upper mantle.
300
The removal and transportation of weathered material usually through wind, water, or gravity.
What is erosion.
300
Where you would find the crater of a volcano.
What is at the top.
300
The area where tectonic plates meet.
What is a plate boundary.
300
The time it takes to decompose a plastic bottle.
What is 450 years.
400
What the upper mantle is made of.
What plates made of large rocks.
400
The process of being broken down into smaller pieces.
What is weathering.
400
Where you would find the magma chamber (where the magma/lava comes from) of the volcano.
What is at the bottom/base.
400
The two kinds of plates we have studied.
What are continental and oceanic.
400
The name of a hybrid between a plum and an apricot
What is a pluot.
500
The thickness of Earth's Crust
What is 6-25 miles.
500
When the land rises up again after a glacier retreats or other major changes to Earth's surface occurs.
What is uplift.
500
What is the large chain of volcanoes in the Pacific Ocean that you learned from Social Studies class? (also found in your science textbook)
What is the Ring of Fire.
500
The name for the center of an earthquake.
What is the epicenter.
500
What kind of pollution includes, honking cars, yelling, and loud music?
What is sound pollution.
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