Layers of the Earth
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Do You Know?
Vocabulary
100
We walk on this layer.
What is the crust?
100
The vibration or shaking of the earth's crust.
What is an earthquake
100
Volcanoes can be made in _______ways
What is three?
100
the _______ is the place underground where the first movement of an earthquake takes place. (Where the damage is located)
What is the epicenter.
100
The rocky opening through which magma rises to the surface.
What is vent
200
The two parts of the core.
What is the inner and outer core?
200
Most earthquakes happen along this break in the earth's surface.
What is a fault?
200
There are ________ different kinds of volcanoes.
What is four?
200
The San Andres Fault runs through ______________.
What is California?
200
The layer of the earth found below the crust.
What is the mantle.
300
Name the three ways that the earth's plates can move.
What is toward each other, away from each other, and past each other?
300
A _____________ measures earthquake waves.
What is a seismograph?
300
Melted rock that reaches the surface is called_______
What is lava?
300
Name two ways volcanoes can destroy.
What is lava kills everything in its path, and gas from the volcano is very dangerous
300
This scale measures the energy release by an earthquake.
What is the Richter Scale
400
The __________core is a pool of hot liquid metal.
What is outer?
400
The ___________Scale measures the amount of damage an earthquake does.
What is Mercalli Scale
400
Name the 4 tpes of volcanoes.
What is shield, cinder cone, dome, and composite or stratavolcano?
400
Name two ways that volcanoes can build or help.
What is create new land and enrich the soil?
400
A large basin formed at the top of a volcano when the top falls in on itself.
What is crater?
500
Tell how the earth is similar to an apple.
What is they both have 3 parts? the skin is like the crust. The fruit is like the mantle. They both have cores.
500
The place underground where the first movement of an earthquake takes place.
What is the focus
500
Name the three ways that volcanoes can be formed.
What is plates moving away from each other, plates moving toward each other, and platesmoving over a hot spot?
500
The build up and sudden release of energy causes an_____________.
What is an earthquake.
500
Another name for stratovolcano
What is composite
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