Earth layers
How many layers does the earth have?
What is 4
What is a tool that records earthquakes called?
a. seismomap
b. seismograph
c. seismologist
What is b. seismograph?
Where do earthquakes MOST LIKELY occur?
a. deltas
b. volcanoes
c. moraines
d. faults
What is d. faults?
What do convergent boundaries form?
What is mountains?
What is the outermost layer of earth?
What is the crust?
What instrument measures the magnitude of earthquakes?
a. Richter Scale
b. seismograph
c. polygraph
d. Mohs Scale
What is a. Richter Scale
What is a crack in the Earth’s crust called?
a. earthquake
b. fault
c. volcano
d. landslide
What is a b. fault?
Underwater volcanoes can create ________ in the middle of the ocean.
a. faults
b. plates
c. islands
What is c. islands?
Which layer of the earth is the thinnest?
What is the crust?
A ____________ is a huge wave caused by an earthquake under the ocean.
a. fault
b. trench
c. seisomograph
d. tsunami
What is d. tsunami?
Which of the following causes both earthquakes and volcanic eruptions?
a. gravity
b. Earth's inner core
c. erosion
d. plate movement
What is d. plate movement?
What do transform boundaries form?
What is earthquakes?
Which layer of the Earth is solid metal (probably iron)?
What is the inner core?
A volcano is a break in the crust of the Earth which exposes the ________ .
a. oceans
b. fault
c. magma
What is c. magma?
What happens when plates slide past each other causing a sudden release of energy and a crack in the Earth’s crust?
a. earthquake
b. volcano
c. deposition
d. erosion
What is a. earthquake?
Volcanoes and Earthquakes can be both _________ and ________ .
a. divergent and convergent
b. destructive and constructive
c. divergent and destructive
d. convergent and constructive
What is b. destructive and constructive?
Which layer of the earth is the hottest?
What is the inner core?
When magma breaks through the crust of the Earth, it is called ________ .
a. a fault
b. a tsunami
c. an earthquake
d. lava
Volcanoes begin in the ________ layer of the Earth.
a. crust
b. mantle
c. inner core
d. outer core
What is b. the mantle?
As heat and pressure builds up in the pockets of the volcano, the ________ expand.
a. gases
b. faults
c. crusts
d. oceans
What is a. gases?