Earth's Structure
Earthquakes
Volcanos
Rocks
Misc.
100
Solid outer layer of the crust.
What is the earth's crust?
100
a sudden and violent shaking of the ground, sometimes causing great destruction, as a result of movements within the earth's crust or volcanic action.
What is an earthquake?
100
Molten rock on the earth's surface.
What is magma?
100
Natural, solid, nonliving materials found in Earth.
What is a rock?
100
Where are most volcanoes found?
In the ocean
200
Massive zone of the earth that lies between the crust and the core.
What is the mantle?
200
Where do earthquakes happen?
Near a fault
200
What pushes the magma up the chamber of the volcano
What pressure and gases
200
forms from a red-hot mixture of melted minerals and gases.
What is Igneous rock?
200
Which rock has the remains of extinct plants and animals?
What is Sedimentary rock?
300
The inner part of the earth.
What is the earth's core?
300
A large crack in the Earth's surface.
What is a fault?
300
What is the top of a volcano called?
What is a crater?
300
rock forms in layers, one layer at a time.
What is Sedimentary rock?
300
What are the remains of extinct plants and animals in the rock called?
What are fossils?
400
How many parts to the core?
2
400
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400
What are vents.
What are the openings on the side of the volcanoes called?
400
rock that has been changed by heat and pressure.
What is Metamorphic rock?
400
Which layer of earths crust if similar to a sandwich?
What is the mantle?
500
What are the two parts called?
What are the outer core and inner core?
500
What causes earthquakes?
plate tectonics
500
What is lava
the liquid once it reaches the surface and flows down the volcano
500
Sudden flow of large masses of rock or soil from a slope.
What is a landslide?
500
Where is the Earth's crust the thickest?
Beneath the ocean
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