Scales
earth
earthquakes
volcanoes
rocks
100
How scientists measure the strength of an eartquake.
What is the richter scale.
100
The layer made up completely of liquid melted rock.
What is the outercore.
100
Large masses of the earth's crust that move very slowly over partly melted mantle.
What is tectonic plates?
100
The melted rock that erupts out of a volcano.
What is lava?
100
When land and rock are moved to a different location because of weather changes.
What is erosion?
200
When a picture frame tilts or a light fixture swings.
What is 0, 1, or 2 on the Mercali scale.
200
The layer we know the most about because it is the closest to us.
What is the crust?
200
The shaking of the earth's crust.
What is an earthquake?
200
The melted rock inside a volcano.
What is magma?
200
The rock that is formed in the mantle.
What is metamorphic rock?
300
How a scientist measures the amount of damage people see after an earthquake.
What is the Mercali scale
300
What the inner core is made of.
What is solid rock.
300
The place where the first vibrations of an earhtquake are felt on the crust.
What is the focus?
300
The hole or indentation at the top of a volcano.
What is the crater?
300
The type of rock which may contain fossils of seashells or plant life.
What is sedimentary rock?
400
The scientists name who discovered the scale that measures the force of an earthquake.
Who is Richter
400
The thickest layer of the earth.
What is the mantle?
400
The place where an earthquake starts vibrating.
What is the epicenter?
400
The kinds of volcanoes that are created depend on this.
What is the kind of eruption?
400
The kind of rock formed from cooling lava.
What is Igneous?
500
The scientist who discovered how to tell people on a scale of I to X what kind of damage has been done after an earthquake.
Who is Mercali
500
The scientific name for a person who studies the earth.
Who is a geologist?
500
The place where the plates meet and a crack may occur.
What is a fault?
500
What is created when magma rises up through a fault and then is quickly cooled by water.
What is the ocean floor?
500
The slow movement and changing of one kind of rock to another.
What is the rock cycle?
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