Vocab
Earth's Layers
Plate Movement
Magnetic Field
Earth's Surface
100
What is the action of molten rock being ejected from a volcano?
Eruption
100
What is the layer under the crust?
Mantle
100
What is the product of two plates transforming?
Earthquake
100
What would blow away if there was no magnetic field?
Atmosphere
100
What is a mound of Earth that spews lava?
Volcano
200
What is the study of rocks?
Geology
200
What is the third most dense layer?
Outer Core
200
What is the action of plates that creates mountains and volcanoes?
Convergence
200
What action is happening that creates earth's magnetic field?
Convection Current
200
What is the result of tectonic plates converging?
Mountain
300
What is another name for tectonic plates?
Lithospheric Plates
300
What is the most dense layer?
Inner Core
300
What is the action that creates continental drift?
Divergence
300
What device moves according to the Earth's magnetic field?
Compass
300
What is the less dense part of the crust?
Ocean Floor
400
What is the product of the outer core's convection currents
Magnetic Field
400
What is the layer that all the continents and plates lie on?
Crust
400
What is the plate action that creates earthquakes?
Transform
400
What keeps our atmosphere from blowing away?
Magnetic Field
400
What is the crust divided into?
Tectonic plates
500
What is a fracture in Earth's crust?
Fault
500
What are the crust, the mantle, and the cores represented as?
Layers
500
What is the action that makes tectonic plates move?
Convection Current
500
What is the scientific term of the convection currents in the outer core?
Geodynamo
500
What is the term for artificial physical features of an area?
Topography
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